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wrote the declaration of independence,
Secratary of State under George  Washington
3rd President of the us

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was an african american slave on the Plantation of Monticello

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Mother: Beverly, Harriet, James Madison aka Maddy (Hennings)

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Mother: Beverly, Harriet, James Madison aka Maddy (Hennings)

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had children with Thomas Jefferson
she went to Paris, France when she was 14 as a nursmaid to Maria,

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"It was important to keep their stories alive. Family counted living or dead" (pg.6)

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The rules of the Great House was not to take anything or you would get whipped.but you could take a bit of extra food from various other places, that was justice and a way to feed themselves. Sally and her family have a privilege, Master Jeff can give her money if she needs it and they don't have to grow stuff. Beverly helps uncle John dig the flower beds, and runs into T.J. and his granddaughter, Ellen. He feels grumpy and ignored. Mama says not to be bothered by Ellen.

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Sally doesn't want Beverly to call     T. J. Papa EVER! It's to keep a secret "What you know in your head and what you can say out loud are not always the same" (pg. 17) Mama called it a secret everybody knew
When she explains to Beverly about his father and slavery, Beverly doesn't realize he's a slave and Mama's a slave, and that Mama and master Jefferson cannot marry because it's illegal.
T.J. named Beverly, he gave him his violin to show his affection

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James got whipped, mama makes the kids watch to see how lucky they are."Running away isn't wrong, the law is wrong.he has a hard time understanding that T.J. ordered the whipping;he thinks T.J. is different

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Joe Fossett announces that Jamie ran away, he had a forged pass;got caught and went to jail,mama explains about slavery.
he asks many questions they will be free
Nobody's a slave on their own(pg.35)

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where African-American slaves lived and worked

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cooked in their cabins

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Mountaintop people: worked in the great house 

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Mountaintop people: worked in the great house 

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ate there meals in the kitchen togethar

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she doesn't want to be related to Sally and her family
finds them intolerable
is T.J.'s daughter

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Character traits:
sarcastic
curious
observant
smart
confused
argues to Mama about the secret. He is forbidden to tell anybody about the secret, wants T.J. to be proud of his violin playing

Imaginative: likes to pretend they were all one big family

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Parthenea, the great grandmother
came from africa but became a slave Mr. Eppes bought her

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"you're great grandmother wasn't born a slave. She didn't deserve to be captured (pg.44)

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A merchant from England
married g gmother

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Sally was Miss Martha's chaperone in France. She knew she could have stayed in France. She knew how to find a job. She was paid a wage. Why did she come back? T.J.'s term was up and she was going to have a baby

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Miss Martha and her family are home for chritsmoss .Beverly wants to see T.J.ANd talk with him MIss Edith brought James to see Joe FossettSally walloped Bever

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Joe ran away, because there was trouble between him and Edith. Sally intervenes and tells T.J. why he ran away. But he came back and didn't get whipped. The children are forbidden to talk about it.

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Nostalgic: about her times in France and friends with Miss Martha and talks about her times in France

Gets mad when Beverly calls Jeff. Papa

Caring: loves and protects her children

Truthful: tells her children the truth about their father

Wise: she know about the future of her children, and understands slavery

Strict: forbids Beverly to call Jeff Papa !!!!! EVER !!!!! And tells him the consequences

Empathetic: cares and helps other people

discreet: she makes sure that the secret is safe

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Three important things happened in the second half of 1807:
Joe fosset became the head blacksmith after Mr. Stewart set Joe's pants on fire
Sally is having a baby and Miss Martha is also having another baby
Beverly figured out that to be a lady you have to be "white"
White people make the laws
Mama showed Beverly his heritage
And he was legally white. Beverly Doesn't like secrets.

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At the beginning of this chapter, the Mama, Harriet, Beverly, Maddy, and baby Eston go see T. J. in his room to show him the baby. T. J. brings up the subject of Beverly's trade and he becomes a carpenter. Beverly and Harriet had a fight and John said: you're special, all of you because of who you're father is and he isn't going to sell you ... He's worrying about what will happen if T. J. dies.css

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Beverly woke up happy, he knew that Master Jefferson was coming home to stay. When they arrived, Maddy and James went to look at James' new house. Mama was waiting for T. J. at the great house.

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The return of T. J. is chahotic. Miss Edith is the head chef. MOnsier JUlian helps design the kitchen with her. Sally had white friends in France. Color doesn't matter in France. Bev had a conversation w/ Monsieu Julian. Bev resents Miss martha for living at the great house.

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Miss Martha has begun to dislike Beverly even more. He looks like T.J. and Sally keeps on telling Beverly not to call him father she also worries about T.J. visits Beverly at lesson Harriet comes back from the great house and declares " There's nothing in there for me"

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Maddy answers the door of the Great house, and begins to talk to the white man. He mistook Maddy for a white boy. He becomes mad when he found Maddy was a "darkie" Miss Ellen is teaching Maddy to read. Maddy understands that he is a slave until he turns 21. He is smarter because he has learned as well as Beverly or Harriet. Miss Martha doesn't want the guests to figure out the truth about Maddy's family. Mamadecides its ok to learn so he can teach everyone else to read.

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James is the son of Miss Edith and joe fosset Maddie and James go fishing guess what an overseer comes and needs a Water boy all the slaves are harvesting the wheat  the overseer guesses that Maddie is  Sally's son he chooses James instead Maddy Heads over to the kitchen Miss Edith gives him a hard look and he helps to snap the beans he realizes he got out of work because he is miss Sally's who's done that was something neither he or Miss Edith could say (pg.33)

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Both miss Ellen and Maddy have something in common' both can't achieve something: knowledge. Miss Ellen wants to go to college but because she's a girl she can't go. Maddy as an enslaved person, isn't allowed to learn to read or write because Society doesn't allow it.

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1.quelled
put an end to
2. Nonsensical
having no meaning; making no sense
3. Solemnly
in a formal and dignified manner
4. Crossed
to go or extend across
5. Bound
walk or run with leaping strides
6. Intensified
become or make more intense
7. Inherit
receive money as a heir at the death of the previous holder
8. apprenticed
employ as an apprentice
9. extravagances
lack of restraints while spending money
10. Unnerved
making someone lose courage or confidence
11. Scorn
the feeling or movie that someone or something is worthless or dispicable
12. Wary
feeling caution about possible dangers
13. Panic
sudden fear or anxiety
14.meager
lacking in quantity or quality
15.indignation
anger or annoyance provoked by unfairness

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Master Jefferson had a Mockingbird but it died Maddy and James decided to get him a new one. The captured a new and brought it to Master Jefferson Master Jefferson pay some $0.50 each Maddy feels guilty because he put the bird into slavery. The bird had been free and now it was a slave (pg. 144)  Maddy gets into a fight with James about getting paid for the bird. Maddy wanted to give it to T.J. as a gift but James wants the money. Maddy tells James that T.J. is his father and he can be set free anytime While Joe is saving up for freedom. James runs away from Maddy.

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Maddy is sad about selling mockingbird to Master Jefferson. Sally told Maddy that he would start playing the violin and Maddy feels bad about being mean to James but he feels better after. Eston wants to learn to play the violin but he's too young. James and Maddy are friends again and went to go fishing.

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James Hubbard, one of the field hands, ran away Monticello Maddie hope that he would stay free but he got caught in Roanoke and brought back to Monticello. Master Jefferson was mad, "So far sounds he will never see his family again" chapter James Hubbard got flogged. Beverly said that he had gotten whipped once before.

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Maddy met Miss Ellen in the front hall. She gave him a primer. He understood that if Miss Martha caught her teaching him again she would take away her Greek. He goes back home and starts teaching Eston. However; get to knock on the door and James asked asked him if he wants to go hunting for coons. He says yes and realizes that James might be jealous of his primer. He told James that he was legally white but James said that white people wouldn't believe him. He decided not to go hunting for coons. He asked mama if he would be free, mama said she wasn't sure. He knew he couldn't be white if everybody knew that his mama was a slave.

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Mama Tries to make Maddy feel better because he's different. Master Jefferson draws up plans for a new landau to take him to Poplar Forest. Miss Martha has a 7th girl, Septimia. Maddy thinks that her name sounds like a disease. Maddy finds Miss Ellen and askes her to drop a book in the kitchen. Miss Edith finds it and gives it to Maddy. She calls it a "funny sort oh sweet potato". The book is full with stories and Harriet learns them by heart and tells them to all the kids on Mullberry row.

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Master Jefferson started losing money. Harriet turned 13 in the spring she wasn't a lady but she was close next year Maddie would be apprenticed to uncle John like Beverly Maddie over here with Miss Martha phone with Cornelia talking in the school room miss Cornelia asked Miss Martha if she can have a maid. She asked specifically for Harriet. Three days later Harriet started working in the textile factory. Master Jefferson was proud of his little factory. Beverly said he would pay Aston a penny if he played money musk on the violin. Maddie feels left out because when he's older he knows that everyone would leave without him.

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When Maddie was time he got his first pair of real she looks at the give out time. Maddie doesn't care what he wears a friend with their kind of comfortable. Maddie asked mama why fieldhands have to wear different clothing mama doesn't know she guess is that they are uncomfortable.

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Mr. Bacon, the overseer, to tell everyone that James is going to Edgehill Mr. Randolph's farm. Edith, Beverly, Maddy and Sally are all powerless to help him. Maddy wasn't sure who hated more, his mother or Master Jefferson. Maddy and Beverly talk about all the slaves that got sold. Maddy understands that Master Jefferson is unfair. Joe Foscett tells Maddy that he's going to miss his son. It connects everyone because they all feel the same way. Maddy talks to Joe faucet and learns that some of Joe Foscett's kin became free; his mama, Sally, his sister and Robert, his brother. He and his sister went back to Monticello. Joe has a hard time believing James got sold. Harriet explains to Maddy that he doesn't have any say or choice. She asks him " What do you think slavery is?" Harriet tells Maddy to ask Mama about her 11 brothers and sisters.

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Master Jefferson's wife is Martha Wayles. Her father, Mister Wayles is Sally Hemings father too. He is also the father of Sally's brothers and sisters. Master Wayles dies and T.J. inherits everything. They all come to Monticello, and stay together as a family.

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"What did Master Jefferson see when he looked at Maddy? His son or his slave?" Maddy wrestles with his anger about T.J. selling James. Neither his mother or Maddy understand why T.J. sold James. His wheat crop hasn't been making very much money. Maddy has been concerned about his debts. When Lewis hits T.J., he rushes to help the man who sold James. Bev says, " You might not be able to change him but you can change yourself. Maddy has pushed away his anger

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Master Jefferson sends Maddy and Beverly to Poplar Forest with Uncle John. He feels great along the way because they have no overseers to oversee them. Along the way, they have a conversation about breaking the rules, "A black person who doesn't follow the rules is a dangerous man in a white person's eyes and doesn't live long."(pg.248). He tells beverly  that he needs to be white inside and out.

Maddy's turning point is when he cuts himself and T.J. takes care of him. They begin talking and Maddy notices that T.J. is acting mor e like his father.

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Maddy begins
to worry more as time comes closer to Beverly's freedom. Even though Sally and her children are enslave, Sally has a better life than others. Wealth makes problems. They come in all colors. Mama asks Bev to look out for Harriet. Harri sez theyve lernded wel.

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Maddie couldn't believe on Beverly's last day that Aston and Beverly were arguing about the old kit violin. Maddie didn't know where of Beverly was going. He was worried. It was safer if he didn't know. Mama  brings Bev new clothes. Mama tells them they will know what Freedom looks like. 2 weeks after Beverly left, after the fire, Mama brings Esten and Maddie the violin that m. J. Played when he was younger. Mama gave Esten the violin because that is what a good brother would do.

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him but you can change yourself. Maddy has pushed away his anger
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Master Jefferson sends Maddy and Beverly to Poplar Forest with Uncle John. He feels great along the way because they have no overseers to oversee them. Along the way, they have a conversation about breaking the rules, "A black person who doesn't follow the rules is a dangerous man in a white person's eyes and doesn't live long."(pg.248). He tells beverly  that he needs to be white inside and out. 

Maddy's turning point is when he cuts himself and T.J. takes care of him.  They begin talking and Maddy notices that T.J. is acting mor e like his father. 
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Maddy begins 
to worry more as time comes closer to Beverly's freedom. Even though Sally and her children are enslave, Sally has a better life than others. Wealth makes problems. They come in all colors. Mama asks Bev to look out for Harriet. Harri sez theyve lernded wel. 
 



















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Maddie couldn't believe on Beverly's last day that Aston and Beverly were arguing about the old kit violin. Maddie didn't know where of Beverly was going. He was worried. It was safer if he didn't know. Mama  brings Bev new clothes. Mama tells them they will know what Freedom looks like. 2 weeks after Beverly left, after the fire, Mama brings Esten and Maddie the violin that m. J. Played when he was younger. Mama gave Esten the violin because that is what a good brother would do.  
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