The Evilness Of Slavery In Elijah Of Buxton

I think Elijah of Buxton is a good book to understand the sadness and the evilness of slavery and how people who haven’t experienced slavery, such as Elijah of Buxton, who was the first free child born in buxton. In the beginning of the book, a boy named Elijah tells the readers about his normal life. He does normal things like going to school, doing chores, playing with his friend, and so on. But, what I think he is doing wrong is playing a game called “Abolitionists and Slavers.” He does not realize he was playing with an horrible thing. But later on in the book throughout his journey, he finds out that slavery was wrong. At first, he was following his normal life. He goes to school, hates his Latin teacher, does some homework, and plays

But suddenly, something awful happened. Mr. Leeroy suddenly got a heart attack and died. Elijah was stunned. But, listening to Mr. Leeroy’s last words, he did not give up. He kept looking for the preacher. A man told him the Preacher was heading towards a little farm somewhere. Elijah followed his directions, and met his destination. He knocked out a big dog in the way, and entered in. He was really scared because he saw several figures in the dark, but when he finally got used to the dark, he realized he was looking at several slaves, the dead body of the Preacher, and a sleeping slaver. By what he was looking at, it seemed like Elijah had found out that the Preacher was murdered by some people and the money was all stolen. It was no use trying to get the money back now. But, there was something else to worry about now. Elijah found out that there were slaves in the place. Elijah and one of the slaves named Cloe started to talk to each other. She asked Elijah about how far away was Canada. Elijah told her it was about a few miles North. She also seemed surprised about Elijah’s literacy. Elijah felt a lot of sympathy for her and the slaves. Then, thoughts he never thought of came to his mind. He wanted to shoot the Slavers and try to help set them free. He realized the true meanings of Slavery. He found out that slavery was wrong and wasn’t what he thought it was like. But Cloe