Night John was a story about the lives of slaves. It is all about a little girl named Sarny, and another slave they call Night John. Night John was a slave that was pulled to the farm by a rope around the neck. The first night he was there, he needed tobacco. Sarny had some wrapped up in her pocket from that morning. They decided to make a trade, some tobacco for the letters A, B, and C. he teaches her the alphabet, and he ends up getting caught, and getting his toes chiseled off. Three topics of slavery that where in this book where their punishments, what they can know, and Slavery as a child. The entire book is about slavery, and what their limits are. A slave is a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. Slave owners could do whatever they wanted to do to the slaves, for not obeying what they want. Slaves were punished by Whipping, imprisonment, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, and branding. They were often punished for not following their masters rules. In the novel Night John, the new slave that goes by the name of Night John teaches Sarny to read, he gets caught and gets punished. He gets his …show more content…
Slaves had terrible things happen to them, for just the color of their skin. Slave owners didn’t want they slaves to know anything. According to Quora “most whites during that time were barely literate.” Which means, that if African Americans, and other people that where enslaved know more, it would make the owners look bad. There could also be a bigger chance that they could rebel, because they could write, and share messages with each other. According to the slave law “That any free person, who shall hereafter teach, or attempt to teach, any slave within the State to read or write, the use of figures excepted, or shall give or sell to such slave or