Jinu's Glory Field: March 2008

Response of The Glory Field

The Glory Field
by Walter Dean Myers

Jinu Baek

I entered a whole new world, the scary and dangerous world. I got whipped by whites, and I lived in misery. I was in the scary slave ship, and I was in the Live Oak Plantation, and I sailed on the ship against the storm. In the journey of 375 pages, I was a part of the book. I was trying to go to the college, and I was making a speech, and I was on the trip from New York to South Carolina. Muhammad Bilal was taken to America by the slave ship. Lizzy worked on the Like Oak Plantation. Elijah Lewis sailed against the strong storm, and Luvenia tried to go to the college. Tommy Lewis made a speech, and Malcolm had a trip from New York to South Carolina.

While Muhammad was hunting a Seen-Ba, slave catchers got him and he was sent to the slave ship. Muhammad had such a hard time in the slave ship. It was bloody, full of screaming of dying people, crying of babies, smell of waste, and diseases. " ...dead...screams....terrifying...darkness..."(P.7)

Lizzy was working on the Live Oak Plantation. Lizzy escaped later and finally reached yankee's camp, "excited... scared... both"(p.61) Lizzy had to escape because if she didn't, she would get whipped by slave owner.

Elijah's grandparents needed money to live. Elijah decided to earn some money by rescuing Little David. He sailed through the storm. It was really hard. "The water just beyond the first bank was rough with breaker line running at a sharp angle to the shore"(p.108). Finally, he earned some money.

Luvenia wanted to go to the college and tried very hard, but it was really hard to make it because she was a black. She decided to open hair dressing business instead. She became a successful businesswoman. "The party lifted Luvenia more than she thought it would. There ws something in the air, feeling that everybody in the small apartment could sense, which held them all together"(p.205).

Tommy was a highschool basketball player. He had an opportunity to go to the college, but he had to follow white rules if he wants to go to the college. Instead, he made a powerful demonstration at the Press Meeting about how hard and painful it was being a black."didn't give us the keys...only the chains...(p.284). He put into jail and lost his opportunity.

Malcolm had a trip from New York to South Carolina, where the Glory Field and Live Oak Plantation were. He learned the family history.

The Glory Field is where Lam, who was the boy escaped from Live Oak Plantation with Lizzy was buried. They couldn't bury him in the Live Oak Plantation because the slave owner didn't allow them to. After he escaped, he died in the Civil War.Slavery started because of the money. Even though it is really bad reason to be slave, blacks tried to be freed men as Lam did. It was a long journey and now, it became much better like blacks can sit on the front of the bus, and they also have power to vote. I'm glad that now segregation is getting weaker and weaker.

-Jinu Baek-

Monday, March 10, 2008

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Sunday, March 9, 2008

2 Important events

1.Washington,D.C. About 200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King dilivers his famous "I Have a Dream"speech.

2.On August 20th 1955, Marnie Till-Bradley of Chicago puts her only child, 14-year old, black Chkcago youth, Emmett Louis Till on a train to visit relatives Money, Mississippi. In a week's time, Emmett is adbucted from his great-unclehome, tortured and murdered for whisting at a white woman in public. Two men, Roy Bryant and J.W.Milarn would confess to the murder to reporter, William Bradford Huie for $4,000. 'Double Jeopardy Rule,' prevented them from being tried again.

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Friday, March 7, 2008

Emmitt TIll image(Don't watch if you don't like disgusting things)

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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Civil War from Wikipedia

Slavery
Main article: History of slavery in the United States
A strong correlation was shown between the degree of support for secession and the number of plantations in the region; states of the deep South which had the greatest concentration of plantations were the first to secede. The upper South slave states of Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee had fewer plantations and rejected secession until the Fort Sumter crisis forced them to choose sides. Border states had fewer plantations still and never seceded.[21][22] The percentage of Southern whites living in families that owned slaves was 36.7 percent in the lower South, 25.3 percent in the upper South and 15.9 percent in the border states that fought mostly for the Union.[23][24] Ninety-five percent of blacks lived in the South, comprising one third of the population there as opposed to one percent of the population of the North. Consequently, fears of eventual emancipation were much greater in the South than in the North.[25]

Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States (1861–1865)The Supreme Court decision of 1857 in Dred Scott v. Sandford added to the controversy. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision said that slaves were "so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect",[26] and that slavery could spread into the territories. Lincoln warned that "the next Dred Scott decision"[27] could threaten northern states with slavery.

Northern politician Abraham Lincoln said, "this question of Slavery was more important than any other; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present."[28] The slavery issue was related to sectional competition for control of the territories,[29] and the Southern demand for a slave code for the territories was the issue used by Southern politicians to split the Democratic Party in two, which all but guaranteed the election of Lincoln and secession. When secession was an issue, South Carolina planter and state Senator John Townsend said that "our enemies are about to take possession of the Government, that they intend to rule us according to the caprices of their fanatical theories, and according to the declared purposes of abolishing slavery."[30] Similar opinions were expressed throughout the South in editorials, political speeches and declarations of reasons for secession. Even though Lincoln had no plans to outlaw slavery where it existed,

Southern concerns included not only economic loss but also fears of racial equality.[31][32][33][34] The Texas Declaration of Causes for Secession[35][36] said that the non-slave-holding states were "proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color", and that the African race "were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race". Alabama secessionist E. S. Dargan said that emancipation would make Southerners feel "demoralized and degraded".[37]

Beginning in the 1830s, the U.S. Postmaster General refused to allow mail which carried abolition pamphlets to the South.[38] Northern teachers suspected of any tinge of abolitionism were expelled from the South, and abolitionist literature was banned. Southerners rejected the denials of Republicans that they were abolitionists.[39] John Brown's raid on the federal Harpers Ferry Armory greatly increased Southern fears of slave insurrections.[40] The North felt threatened as well, for as Eric Foner concludes, "Northerners came to view slavery as the very antithesis of the good society, as well as a threat to their own fundamental values and interests".[41]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

Civil War from Wikipedia

Slavery
Main article: History of slavery in the United States
A strong correlation was shown between the degree of support for secession and the number of plantations in the region; states of the deep South which had the greatest concentration of plantations were the first to secede. The upper South slave states of Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee had fewer plantations and rejected secession until the Fort Sumter crisis forced them to choose sides. Border states had fewer plantations still and never seceded.[21][22] The percentage of Southern whites living in families that owned slaves was 36.7 percent in the lower South, 25.3 percent in the upper South and 15.9 percent in the border states that fought mostly for the Union.[23][24] Ninety-five percent of blacks lived in the South, comprising one third of the population there as opposed to one percent of the population of the North. Consequently, fears of eventual emancipation were much greater in the South than in the North.[25]

Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States (1861–1865)The Supreme Court decision of 1857 in Dred Scott v. Sandford added to the controversy. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision said that slaves were "so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect",[26] and that slavery could spread into the territories. Lincoln warned that "the next Dred Scott decision"[27] could threaten northern states with slavery.

Northern politician Abraham Lincoln said, "this question of Slavery was more important than any other; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present."[28] The slavery issue was related to sectional competition for control of the territories,[29] and the Southern demand for a slave code for the territories was the issue used by Southern politicians to split the Democratic Party in two, which all but guaranteed the election of Lincoln and secession. When secession was an issue, South Carolina planter and state Senator John Townsend said that "our enemies are about to take possession of the Government, that they intend to rule us according to the caprices of their fanatical theories, and according to the declared purposes of abolishing slavery."[30] Similar opinions were expressed throughout the South in editorials, political speeches and declarations of reasons for secession. Even though Lincoln had no plans to outlaw slavery where it existed, Southerners throughout the South expressed fears for the future of slavery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

Southern concerns included not only economic loss but also fears of racial equality.[31][32][33][34] The Texas Declaration of Causes for Secession[35][36] said that the non-slave-holding states were "proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality of all men, irrespective of race or color", and that the African race "were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race". Alabama secessionist E. S. Dargan said that emancipation would make Southerners feel "demoralized and degraded".[37]

Beginning in the 1830s, the U.S. Postmaster General refused to allow mail which carried abolition pamphlets to the South.[38] Northern teachers suspected of any tinge of abolitionism were expelled from the South, and abolitionist literature was banned. Southerners rejected the denials of Republicans that they were abolitionists.[39] John Brown's raid on the federal Harpers Ferry Armory greatly increased Southern fears of slave insurrections.[40] The North felt threatened as well, for as Eric Foner concludes, "Northerners came to view slavery as the very antithesis of the good society, as well as a threat to their own fundamental values and interests".[41]

Monday, March 3, 2008

Mr. Luther King

1968 Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated; Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., introduces legislation for federal holiday to commemorate King
1973

Illinois is first state to adopt MLK Day as a state holiday
1983

Congress passes, President Reagan signs, legislation creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
1986

Federal MLK holiday goes into effect
1987

Arizona governor Evan Mecham rescinds MLK Day as his first act in office, setting off a boycott of the state.
1989

State MLK holiday adopted in 44 states
1991

The NFL moves the 1993 Super Bowl site from Phoenix, Ariz., to Pasadena, Calif., because of the MLK Day boycott.
1992

Arizona citizens vote to enact MLK Day. The Super Bowl is held in Tempe, Ariz. in 1996.
1993

For the first time, MLK Day is held in some form—sometimes under a different name, and not always as a paid state holiday—in all fifty states.
1999

New Hampshire becomes the last state to adopt MLK Day as a paid state holiday, replacing its optional Civil Rights Day.
2000

Utah becomes the last state to recognize MLK Day by name, renaming its Human Rights Day state holiday.

South Carolina becomes the last state to make MLK Day a paid holiday for all state employees. Until now, employees could choose between celebrating it or one of three Confederate-related holidays.

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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mlkhistory1.html

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Movie:Emmitt Till Louis

I really didn't enjoy Emitt Till movie because it was so terrible, even it made me close my eyes. When it shows Emitt Till's face, I was almost shocked. He lost his 1 eye, other on his cheek, chopped head... it was disgusting and it was tragic. I can not believe that people (who killed Emitt Till) could done that kind of thing. I also can not believe that people's face can be changed like that. I can not understand what's so good with whites.(This is just my opinion but if there is segregation, whites should be segregated by blacks.) In my opinion, this case was one of the most important thing in the black's history.

Luvenia: Summary

The Glory Field
1930 Chicago
p. 141-154
Luvenia Lewis lives in Chicago, and she does not want to move back to Curry South Carolina with her parents Elijah, Goldie and her brother Richard. Luvenia is doing her Godmother Miss Etta's hair and talks about her reasons for staying in Chicago. The whole time Elijah was in Chicago he had been working and “every spare dollar went to Curry, holding the Lewis family together even when white females in the area failed. Elijah was their bank...their emergency fund”(p.150). It was Elijah's dream to return to the Glory Field.
Luvenia wants Miss Etta to help her to write a letter to her father to convince him to let her stay in Chicago. Luvenia works in a house as a live-in maid for the family Deets. The Deets family has a daughter, Florenz Deets who is about Luvenia's age and when “ 'I clean her room I look at her books. They're not that hard. Once I read a chapter in her history book and at the end there were these questions and I answered every one of them.' ”(p.147). Luvenia has dreams of going to University to get an education. Luvenia needs money to go to University. She went to the bank to get a loan to go to school, but the bank manager told her she needed a letter of guarantee that she will have a job until she pays back all of the money. “I have to make at least eleven dollars a week too”(p.144). Luvenia wants to ask Mr. Deets if he will sign the guarantee.
Luvenia's brother Richard was content to return to Curry South Carolina, but Luvenia says, “Daddy's got to realize that there are city folk and then there's country folk. I was raised in Chicago and I'm a Chicago girl”(p.143). Luvenia “felt for a long time , that there were two distinct kind of coloured people in Chicago...country type people...the other kind of coloured people, the kind that usually referred to themselves as 'Negroes' and spoke as proper as white people, and sometimes even more proper(p.153).

The Glory Field
1930 Chicago
p.155-164

Luvenia went to church with Miss Etta. Reverend Bradley preaches about the Prodigal son. Luvenia is in the choir and she sings a solo at church. Luvenia decides to go the Deets' house to “clean it real good and then talk to [Mrs. Deets] about what the bank said”(p.164).

Tommy's Journal Entry

Basketball was Tommy's favorite sport.

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Also, he was the key player in his team. His team won the All-City tournament.

I think, he was very proud of himself, but he didn't show it to his team. I also often hide my pride when I have done good jobs. "Tommy, you did it!" Jimmy Manigault grabbed Tommy's shoulders. "No," Tommy said, "We did it! We won because we're the best team. One guy doesn't beat Delaney"(p. 213) Delaney was Tommy's opponent team, the best team in the city for a long time/ He must have felt he was in a fairy tale story. He felt as good as he ever felt.(p.213) Tommy was introduced to Mr. Chase, a scout from the State University. Mr. Chase told Tommy to skip the last grade of highschool and go to college. I think Mr. Chase is funny because he made silly talks such as "My wife doesn't cook much, but she makes some mean iced tea."(p.214) or "Let's find the girls and complain about this room."(p.221)

Tommy was not quite sure about going to the only-white college

and so did his mother, Virginia Lewis. "I still don't see how you can go to college if you don't finish high school," his mother said. (p. 223) That night while he was still checking his mind, the phone rang from Skeeter, his friend. He said he was bitten by a snake.

Tommy and his father drive Skeeter to the hospital.

Nobody talked about Mercy Hospital, the hospital for whites or Dow, the hospital for blacks. No one had ever said that officially that Mercy Hospital...for whites...Dow...for Negroes.(p.226) The hospital was the part of the segregation, or Jim Crow Laws. There shall be maintained by the governing authorities of every hospital maintained by the state for treatment of whote and colored patients...(Jim Crow Laws, Mississippi) What a terrible law!

The next day, Tommy and his friends talked about the march they were going to have will be treathened by the klan(KKK).

Mr. Chase called Tommy, "I spoke to some of the trustees at the school; and they were really pleased that you were thinking about the offer to come Johnson City State," Mr. Chase said.(p.253) Tommy wasn't the only black to go to the University. Three other students will join in. "Am I the only Negro that's applying?" "No, we have got two young girls, a young man."(p.254) He will go to college next fall. I think he is the luckiest boy in the whole world.

Tommy's summary

It was the day of the All-City Tournament. Tommy Lewis plays basketball for Curry Secondary and he is the MVP of his team. In the locker room, the team celebrated its win. There were hugs all around, and Tommy's hand was shaken a hundred times. He felt as good as he had ever felt. (pg.213) The Curry Cougars won its first Tournament!Mr. Chase, a scout from State College, invited Tommy and his girlfriend Mandy over for refreshments and Mr. Chase talked to Tommy about a scholarship. Mr. Chase told him that "States looking for some good people" (pg.219) Tommy liked the idea of going to State, but he was also uneasy about going to an all white college. "It would be a challenge in which he wouldnt be at all sure who was on his team" (pg. 222)

Tommy's summary

After Mr.chase suggested Tommy to go to the college, he told his family about that. His mother was worried about Tommy is going to go to the white college but his father wanted to send his son to the college. While they were talking about it the telephone rang, Skeeter Jackson, Tommy's friend was bitten by a snake."He got bit by a snake"(p.266). Tommy and his father brought Skeeter to the hospital. While they were waiting, they talked about Martin Luther King, Jr's perade. When Skeeter came out, Dad said he will be all right."The doctor said you were going to be all right, honey"(p.233)

Journel Entry: Elijah

Elijah

Elijah lived after the Civil War that killed Lem in the late 1800. Blacks were free!!! I was happy when I heard this news but they were not perfectly free yet because whites still hated blacks.

Elijah lived in Live Oak Plantation with his grandparents because his parents moved to Georgia to find their jobs. I know how they feel because my father is away and working to earn money. Elijah's girl friend was Goldie and he tried to marry her. However, Elijah's grandparents had big problem. They didn't have enough money to pay their taxes. They couldn't get money from the bank because they were blacks. I thought it was so unfair because they were same people. The only difference is their color. So, Elijah decided to earn money for his grandparents. His plan was to save David in the Key Island who is trapped by the storm.

David was juiced up because he loves to drink. He didn't want to sail back because he was so lazy. He always used tides to move. Elijah, Abby who was one of Elijah's family,and Sheriff Glover who was trying to earn money with Elijah made a deal with Mr. Turner for $35!!! They started to sail. Elijah and Abby rowed and Sheriff Glover controlled the key because using a sail in the strom was no use. Finally they reached the Key Island and they found David and Foster who was lost too and brought them to their boat. When they came back, they received real $35!!!

Elijah and his grandparents were happy but Sheriff Glover warned that Frank Petty was going to wip Elijah. This was also unfair because whites thinks they can do whatever they want to blacks. He didn't want to get wipped so he decided to move to Chicago. His family were sad but he finally moved with train ticket and part of the $35.

Jinu

SUMMARY OF THE GLORY FIELD BY WALTER DEAN MYERS(1900, p71-125)

The Glory Field
April 1900
Curry Island, South Carolina
p. 71-77
Elijah, Lizzy and Richard's son is out contemplating life while ploughing the fields with Sukey, the old mule. Elijah is plowing the Lewis' own fields! The Lewis' received eight acres of land from the Yankee soldiers when they assigned plots of land to the former slaves.
The white people and the black people had to adjust to life after slavery. The whites had a hard time realizing that the blacks were freemen and the blacks had to learn what it meant to be free. The whites wanted things to be like it was before the civil war and they tried to return it to the old ways through terror and maltreatment of the blacks. The Klan would ride at night and terrorize the blacks just because they thought that a black had been disrespectful to the whites, or not working hard enough if they were on farms that were sharecropping farms. It was a hard time for all.
Grandma Saran and Grandpa Moses were trying to hold on to their plot, but they were behind on their taxes, and tried to borrow some money from the bank, but the bank manager said, “...the King Street Bank was for white folks.”(p.75) Elijah was worried about his grandma and grandpa.
Elijah's father, Richard Lewis and his mother, Lizzy lived in Savannah, Georgia because Richard had a job in a pulp mill, but were on a visit to South Carolina. Elijah has a friend Abby, and Abby wants to go start a fishing business with Elijah instead of farming. Abby also wants to get a guitar to play ragtime music which the elders don't agree with. Abby and Elijah traded some firewood for an old boat that Grandpa Moses helped to fix up. They would go out fishing every time they had a chance, and even on Sunday sometimes and catch some fish and sell it when Grandma Saran was at her sister's house in Johnson City because Saran did not approve of them working on the Sabbath day.

The Glory Field
April 1900
p. 78-89
The Lewis family gathers at the African burial ground on their plot of land at the Live Oaks Plantation. Moses says, “Lord, bless this precious earth.” After blessing the cemetery they gather for a family picnic.
The whole family gathers at the picnic together. Goldie and Elijah like each other and they tease each other at the picnic. “I might have to marry you quicker than I planned,” said Elijah.(p80) We find out that Lem died in the war and the Lewis family was not allowed to bury him in the grave yard, so they buried him in the Glory Field instead. A storm was coming their way and it looked to be a big one.
Sister Clinton, who does laundry for the white folks, and who is a busy body, came by and was talking to Grandma Saran about a little boy who Grandma Saran takes care of and whose name is David. Sister Clinton said that she saw little David with Foster and they were supposed to go fishing. Grandma Saran plays a bit dumb with Sister Clinton, but when Sister Clinton leaves, Grandma Saran tells Elijah she knew who Sister Clinton was talking about and says that Foster is “...always half juiced up.”(p.83). Foster is always hanging around little David Turner's father because Turner has a lot of money and Foster can “...borrow some drink money once in a while (p84).
The Lewis family is enjoying the picnic when old man Turner shows up looking for little David. Old man Turner and Grandma Saran make small talk and old man Turner asks if Grandma Saran hasn't seen Foster. Old man Turner doesn't ask about David, and Grandma Saran didn't want to ask about him even though she suspected that it was David that old man Foster was looking for. Finally Grandma Saran “...called out to him. 'Mr. Hamlin!...Where's David?' The balding white man turned slowly, lifted his hands upward, and exhaled deeply. 'Aunt Saran, I don't know where they are' (p.89).

The Glory Field
1900
p.90-107
Old man Turner leaves the Lewis place on his covered surrey, and Grandpa Moses says, “Serves him right.”(p.90) The family talks to Lizzy about being in the north and how the white folks treated the blacks up north. “Most of them were really nice” (p.91). Grandma Saran asks, “What are we going to do about little David?” (p.92) Grandpa Moses puts in his two cents worth and says that Foster is out on that little island near the key. And Grandpa Moses says he goes out there because he is a lazy man and he can follow the tide out and follow the tide in.
Elijah asks Grandma Saran if she wants him to go out to the island to find little David. And Grandma Saran says, “It don't hurt to make believe you were awake when you went to church this morning” (p.93). Elijah's parents were going to head back to Savannah, and by the time Elijah would be back they would be gone.
It took about one hour for Elijah and Abby to get into town. They were going to see if they could help find little David. The storm was brewing and there was “...brief smatterings of rain” (94). Elijah has an idea and he asks Abby if he wants to go along with the idea. Abby says he has an idea too, but Elijah says that if it has anything to do with ragtime music, then Abby should forget about it.
Elijah tells Abby his idea of telling Mr. Turner that he will find little David if he lends the money for the taxes to Grandpa Moses and Grandma Saran. Abby thinks Elijah is “...too hot-blooded. You say something like that to Mr. Turner and he's liable to get mad and start some trouble”(p.96) But Elijah wants to help because he “...saw something in Grandma Saran's eyes...I looked at Grandpa Moses” (p.97). Elijah is not sure if he can stand up to old man Turner, but he is going to try.
They arrives at the beach and a group of men were there. Sheriff Glover and the men were talking to old man Turner, and when Hamlin Turner saw them he invited Elijah and Abby over. Old man Turner and all the men discuss the risks of going out in the storm to look for little David and Foster., and he eventually offers 25 dollars to the man who can rescue little David. One by one the men drop out and when only Sheriff Glover, Mr. Turner and two white men, Abby and Elijah were left, Elijah finally offers himself and Abby to rescue little David, but for thirty-five dollars!!
Sheriff Glover tries to intimidate Elijah and Abby with his gun, but Elijah does not back down. Frank Petty insults Elijah with the N word and Elijah starts to walk away, but stops when he sees “the concern in the white man's eyes” (p.102) Mr. Turner finally offers twenty dollars, but eventually offers him the thirty-five dollars.
Even though Sheriff Glover doesn't know where Foster and little David are, he goes out on the boat with Elijah and Abby too. He wants a part of the rescue money! Elijah and Abby go to get the Pele Queen and bring it around and Sheriff Glover met the boat. The three are off in the Pele Queen to find little David.

The Glory Field
1900
p. 108-113
Elijah, Abby and Sheriff Glover go out into the storm on the boat, and Sheriff Glover takes hold of the tiller while Elijah and Abby row because it was no use to use the little sail in a storm like that. The two boys struggle as they try to make their way to Key Island. The water is extremely rough and they need to navigate around one edge of Gray Rock. Sheriff Glover realizes that what they are doing is very dangerous and he threatens the boys with a gun to turn around. “Sheriff Glover unsnapped the leather flap on his holster, pulled the long-barrel revolver from its nesting place, and pointed it at Abby. “I said turn back, boy!” (p.111) The boys stare Sheriff Glover down and Sheriff Glover puts his gun away. They reach Key Island and Abby stays with the boat and Sheriff Glover and Elijah start searching the Island for little David and Foster.

The Glory Field
1900
p. 114-125
When Elijah and Sheriff Glover start searching the island, Elijah goes one way and Sheriff Glover goes the other way. The wind is blowing so hard that it is hard for Elijah to hear anything other than the wind. Elijah calls out to David many times and he almost gives up hope of finding him when he hears a faint cry for help, “Help!” The cry was weak, but it was clear. Elijah looked to his left and saw the boy's thin arm swinging over his head”(p.116).
Elijah calls Sheriff Glover over and they realize that Foster is holding onto David's leg for dear life. Foster was hurt and Sheriff Glover had to point a gun to Foster's head for him to let him go of little David. Elijah gets ready to take little David to the boat, and Sheriff Glover threatens Elijah with death if he leaves with him. Sheriff Glover sets Foster's broken leg and finally carries him back to the boat.
The storm was howling and they had a rough time rowing back to the mainland. They finally make it and the Lewis family is waiting along with Old man Turner. Old man Turner and Sheriff Glover walk away with David and leaves Elijah wondering if he is going to see any of the money. : “...Elijah saw Sheriff Glover walking with Hamlin Turner. He was carrying David"(p,122).
In the local paper, The Gazette, the credit for the rescue was given to Sheriff Glover and there was no mention of it to Elijah and Abby. “We don't never get no credit.” Grandpa Moses was carving on a piece of driftwood”(p.123).

Muhammad Bilal's journal entry

Muhammad Bilal

Muhammad Bilal came from Siera
Leone on the west coast of Africa.
He got captured by slave catchers
when he ended his fight with a
Seen-Ba. He was surprised so much.
Slave Catchers were catching Africans
to earn money because if they get
slaves to government, government
gives money to slave catchers.
Inside the slave ship was
terrible and horrible.
It was bloody, screaming of dying people
, crying of babies, smell of waste,
and full of diseases. Slave catchers act like
slaves were animals. Even I could say
they would pack them in a bag!

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The ship moored on a harbor for many days with
lots of slaves

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and finally sailed for the
U.S.A.

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Muhammad worried about his family,
people who were aboard the slave ship,
and his future.
He hoped to go back to Africa.
Eventhough it was terrible,
and he was only 11 years old, he didn't give up
because he knew that he was not a slave.
He knew he was a man.

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Summary of The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers(1864,p11-70)

Summary of The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
The Glory Field

1864
p. 11-23
The Lewis slaves were made to work on the fields even though is was Sunday. It was a year ago since they worked the fields on a Sunday.
Joshua Lewis, Moses Lewis' brother had run away because he had heard that his wife, Neela might be sold, and Lem Lewis, Mose's son, was described by Grandma Dolly as being like her grandfather Muhummad and “did things differently”(p.15), and Grandma Dolly also says, “If you born with a taste for freedom in your mouth, you got to satisfy it.” Lem had escaped and run away too.
There were patrollers out looking for Joshua and Lem. Everybody was wondering what happened to them. Master Lewis, his family, his overseer Mister Joe Haynes and his workers, and Moses Lewis, his family and the other slaves all wondered if they would be caught.While they were working in the fields, Moses sees Lem off at a distance because he starts singing a spiritual referring to the lost lambs, “The young lambs must find the way...” and eventually the slaves see what Moses had seen, Lem being dragged behind a horse.
Saran, Lem's mother, grandma Dolly, Moses and the other slaves back in their quarters, rely on their faith and call on God to keep Lem safe.Miss Julia, Master Lewis' daughter comes to get Lizzy with the excuse that the kitchen is dirty, in order to manipulate Lizzy into telling her what she knows about Lem and Joshua. She acts so high and mighty when she says to Lizzy that it's thanks to her that Lem is still alive, “They should hang him from a fruit tree...and they would have, too, if it hadn't been for me...I told them not to hang him because I knew you were sweet on him.”(p.23)
The Glory Field

1864
p. 24-34
Miss Julia and Lizzy drink tea and Miss Julia sweet talks Lizzy even telling her that one day she is going to buy Lizzy from her father and set her free so that they can walk hand and hand in pretty dresses in Johnson City.
Lizzy is told by Master Lewis to return to the quarters, and she listens for a minute behind the door to see if she can hear anything about Joshua and Lem. When she arrives to the quarters everyone asks her questions about what she heard. She tells them that Lem is tied to a tree out in the woods and tomorrow they are going to talk to the slave trader Mister Oakes and see if he can sell him to Foster.
Moses doesn't trust Miss Julia and he has no qualms in telling Lizzy that Miss Julia is just sweet talking her, and Grandma Dolly says, “And don't think you overheard nothing they don't want you to know. Anything you know is what they want you to know so they can use you.”(p.30)
Everybody in the slave quarters is wondering if Joshua is going to come back for Lem. Everybody knows that Joshua knows what tree Lem is tied to only they don't know if he is going to come back for him. Moses tells a story of two boys and how they couldn't take the abuse from the master anymore and they end up being hung for fighting with a white man. He tells this story to remind them that Lem and Joshua are not safe.
We find out how Lizzy came to live with Moses Lewis and his family. Lizzy's mother died because of all the hard work in the rice plantations, therefore, Lizzy came to live with Moses and his family. Lizzy lying in bed remembers a coachman from Savannah, Georgia and how fine he looked in his fine clothes and how he talked about how the white people treat the blacks in Savannah, and how he doesn't understand why the blacks aren't just happy with their situation and should accept it instead of fighting it. He says, “And be like them folks that call themselves free?...they ain't doing no kind of good...they were better off being slaves. Least they had something to eat and knew how to behave themselves.”(p.33) Moses did not agree with the coachman from Savannah, and he shows his repulsion by spitting on the ground and saying “...a poor excuse for a man...”(p.33)
Lizzy keeps pondering about Lem and turning her thoughts over and over again about him, and asks herself if Lem had a freedom dream and that's why he left. Lizzy wants to go and say bye to Lem and “say something good to him so he wouldn't feel so all alone,”(p.34)
The Glory Field

1864
p. 35-44
Lizzy was lying down in the cabin when she decides to go out to see Lem and bring him water. She is surprised by her Grandma Dolly on the porch. Lizzy listens to her Grandma's advice that Grandma Dolly's father told her. “He used to say they keep us in between the whip and the North Star. One hand holds out freedom and the other holds out a whip. Long as we sitting there turning our heads which way and that...If they can't turn your head, they can't turn you at all”(p.37). The whites offer the blacks the North Star in one hand, but have the whip in the other. The North Star representing freedom and the whip representing the south and slavery.
Lizzy goes off to see Lem and brings a clay jug of water with her to give some water to Lem. She is hesitant about going and at times stops on the way wondering if she should have brought Lem something to eat, if he is going to ask her to cut him loose, how will she find Lem, and if they find her there with him if she would be whipped? She remembers seeing Bill being whipped just because Old Master Lewis thought that Bill was being disrespectful to young Master Lewis. All that Bill had done really was to drop a bolt of fabric by mistake in the mud. A small thing made into a bigger problem for no reason really.
Lizzy finds Lem tied to a tree and his face is swollen and there was blood on his cheek. She decides to clean Lem and offer him some water. While Lem was drinking water all of a sudden Lizzy was whipped by Mister Joe Haynes! He whipped her three times! Once across her back, once on her ankles, and once across her hip even tearing her thin dress. Mister Joe Haynes accuses Lizzy of trying to free Lem. Mister Joe Haynes justifies himself with this excuse to whip Lizzy.
While Mister Joe Haynes was occupied by Lem and Lizzy, and he whipped Lizzy one more time, he did not see Joshua come through the bushes. “Joshua's body crashed into the overseer's bent frame and sent him backwards.”(p.44) Lem urges Lizzy to grab the rifle that “...still lay across the bush.”(p.44)
The Glory Field

1864
p. 45-51
Joshua gets Mister Joe Haynes pinned to the ground, and Mister Joe Haynes begs for his life. “...But don't kill me. I got a wife and family.”(p.46) Lizzy begs Joshua not to shoot Mister Joe Haynes too. Joshua says that Lizzy has to run away with them otherwise Master Lewis will whip, and probably kill her. Lizzy can't believe that she has to go and won't be able to see Grandma Dolly or the rest of the family again. Joshua decides that she can run back to the quarters to say good-bye, but that she has to hurry. “If you get back in a short while, I won't kill him...If you don't, I'm going to have to break his neck...”(47)
Lizzy runs back to the quarters and tells everyone what happened. Lizzy wished that this would had never happened. Saran takes Lizzy's face in her hands and says, “When folks take your freedom, and the only way for you to get it is to risk dying for it, then dying comes when it wants to. You go on, you'll be all right. You young. You got plenty to live for...”(50) Saran tells Lizzy that Miss Julia came to get Lizzy to take her back to the big house, but Saran told Miss Julia that Lizzy was in the field because she was sick. Saran urges Lizzy to change her dress because Miss Julia would be back and if Miss Julia saw her dress she would know that something was wrong. Every one agrees that Lizzy has to get back to Joshua and Lem to run away.
Miss Julia comes to the door and wants Lizzy to come to the big house, but Lizzy pretends that she is sick and Miss Julia says, "Well you do look a sight"(p.51).
The Glory Field

1864
p. 52-58
Miss Julia wants to bring Lizzy to the big house, but Lizzy convinces Miss Julia that she will come in the morning. Everybody at Lizzy's house are frantic because they know that Lizzy has to get going to meet Lem and Joshua. Lizzy says her goodbyes to everyone and Saran says, “If you get caught, act like you ain't right in the head”(p. ). Saran tells Lizzy not to turn back.
Lizzy meets up with Joshua and Lem away from the tree. As they head out Lizzy keeps asking," where are we going?"(p54) Of course Joshua doesn't really know where they are going and so is his frustration Joshua just says , “Just going.”((p.54) Lizzy wonders if Lem and Joshua killed Mister Joe Haynes and that's why they were not talking much. Joshua wants to take them to an abandoned smoke house, but when they get close they realize that they are not going to make it to the house so Lem and Lizzy hide up in some trees. Lizzy was feeling exhilarated at the thought of herself being free, and she contemplates these thoughts as she watches some white men out with children playing in the fields.
Joshua leaves them and Lizzy and Lem sleep in the trees. Lizzy realizes that something profound has happened to her...”It was what had happened to her. She was free. It was a scary free, and it was a hungry free and a tired free, but it was free.”(p.58)
The Glory Field

1864
p.59-70
Lizzy woke up and all of a sudden remembered where she was and she felt scared. She couldn't see Lem, and she heard sounds in the distance that sounded like booms. She climbs down the tree and Lem calls out to her. They decide that the sounds must be coming from the fighting of the civil war, and that they have to keep moving because Mister Joe Haynes and the dogs are probably after them.
They hear the dogs drawing closer and closer! They see some lights and head to the lights running, and walking when they get too tired. They are afraid because the riders on horses point in their direction, and Lizzy and Lem are not sure if they are pointing at them, but then they realize that they are pointing at the fires. The riders call off the dogs and the dogs circle one more time and they ride away. Lem and Lizzy are relieved and head towards the fires when someone comes up behind them and they can't believe their eyes! The soldier is black! “You're black!” she said. Glad you noticed it,” the soldier grinned. I had just about forgot it.”(p65)
They find out about the Yankee army and how there are many black soldiers and how the army is going to start a black regiment. And they find that Joshua is at the camp too!! The soldiers feed Lem and Lizzy and put them to work.
Lizzy has an important decision to make: follow some people who are trying to escape North, or follow the regiment and help out...Lizzy “...ran as fast as she could, her feet slapping against the hard road. When she got around the bend, the men were still in sight, tall and proud. She followed them, never looking back.”(p.70)

Lizzy's journal entry

Lizzy

Lizzy, young girl who was living in the Live Oaks WhipPlantation as a slave
because her mother died lived when there was Civil War. Live Oak Plantation's owner, Master Lewis and overseer, Mister Joe Haynes controlled their slaves. Meanwhile, Joshua and Lem ran away from Live Oak Plantation. Joshua ran away because he heard that her wife might be sold and Lem ran away for freedom. Of course Master Lewis and Mister Joe Haynes tried to catch them. Finally, Master Lewis and Mister Joe Haynes caught Lem. When Moses saw Lem was coming back, she sang a song,
" ... The young lambs must find the way
... With crosses and trails on every side
... The young lambs must find the way." (p.14)
When they caught him, they tied him to a tree because they wanted to attract Joshua and catch him.
That night, Miss Julia, Mister Lewis's daughter called Lizzy to find out some informations about Lem and Joshua. Miss Julia said to Lizzy friendly way so Lizzy would say everything that she knows. Lizzy wanted to say good-bye to Lem so Lem won't be lonely. She thought she will never see Lem again. She went to Lem to give some water. When she saw Lem, she gave water to him. Suddenly, somebody whipped her 3 times! Mister Joe Haynes whipped her. Suddenly, Joshua came out and tied Mister Joe Haynes to a tree and freed Lem. Joshua said she needs to run away. Lizzy wanted to say good- bye to her family. She said to them and she came back and ran to somewhere but nobody knows. We heard whites' sound. Lem and Lizzy climbed a tree to hide and Joshua ran to somewhere. When whites were gone, they saw dogs with Master Lewis!!! They ran and ran... Finally, they reached the Yankee's Camp and they found Joshua! They decided to help them.
I thought Lizzy was friendly and kind to everybody and brave compared to other girls. If she was timid, maybe she won't follow Joshua and Lem to run away. Joshua was brave too. He came out to help Lizzy and Lem. If he was timid, he won't come out. Lem was an enduring boy. He ran eventhough it was so painful to walk because Mister Joe Haynes whipped him. Moses, Saran, and Grandma Dolly were peaceful people. When Lizzy came to them, they didn't stand up and say " I want to go and have freedom!"

Summary of The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers(1753,p3-5)

The Glory Field

1753

p. 3-8

Muhummad is captured and brought into a slave ship on the west coast of Africa, Sierra Leone. He is in the bottom of a slave ship for thirty six days before setting sail for the United States. He suffers on the slave ship because he is shackled to the ship. He is afraid because he does not know what his future holds. He asks himself some questions. Where are my parents? How are they? Are they dead? Will I survive? Will all the people on the ship die? Where am I going? What will become of me? He wants to be free again.

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