Niagara Slave Research Paper

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In June of 1857 a young slave named Solomon, is carried to freedom across the raging Niagara River clinging to the back of nineteen-year-old Levi, a slave from the same Georgia plantation. At eleven years old, young Solomon has lost all of his family to slavery; his mother was sold away when he was just a baby, his father ran the underground railroad when he was six, and now he has had to leave his beloved Grandpa Jacob on the American side of the river after he was badly injured running from slave catchers.
With Levi, Solomon goes to Little Africa, a community of former slaves just outside Fort Erie, and only miles from where they have left Grandpa in Buffalo. There they find work cutting down trees, the very first paid work either of them have ever known. Welcomed and aided by other former slaves, Levi and Solomon are soon settled into a tent and working long hours in the woods. While Solomon carefully hides his earnings away for his Grandpa, Levi is saving up to buy a farm of his own.
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They try fishing and loading and unloading supplies. Yet the further they get from Fort Erie, and Buffalo just across the Niagara River, the more Solomon worries that his Grandpa won’t be able to find him when he’s healed up enough to cross over.
In Bloomfield, Solomon attends school for the first time because Levi has promised Grandpa Jacob that he would go. The school accepts both black and white students however, while the white students sit at desks inside the schoolhouse, the black students are consigned to a lean-to attached to the building and must listen to the schoolmaster’s lessons through the open window. Between his worries about his grandfather and his growing fear and dislike of Mr. Wellington, Solomon learns nothing beyond the spelling of his
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