Seventh 5,4,3,2,1

5 Comments
-I feel that Charles is a noble person for thinking for his family along with himself.
-Slaves were a big profit for the south.
-I feel that slaves were lucky that some whites were slave helpers, and actually worked to help slaves become free.
-Some whites bought slaves so they could treat them as real people as they work for them.
-Slave raids were when the British raided the Patriots, and took their slaves onto their side.

4 Questions
-Were slaves ever just picked up, and put into slavery in the south?
-What drove whites to help slaves when there was so much temptation to buy slaves basically for game?
-How many slave raids occurred during the war?
-Why were privateers so important for the war?

3 Words
-Privateers (Cox 106): The commander or one of the crew of such a ship.
-Impregnable (Cox 107): strong enough to resist or withstand attack; not to be taken by force, unconquerable.
-Sentinel (Cox 109): a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.

2 Literary Devices
-Personification: "...to quiet the minds of the Indians...," (Cox 111). This is personification because minds can't be quiet.
-Similie: " Isom Carter, wo described himself as "a free man..." (Cox 114). This is a similie because it compares Isom, a slave, to a free man.

1 Summary Sentence: This section of the reading basically is talking about how the British have been raiding the Patriots, and taking some slaves.