Prentice Alvin Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Prentice Alvin Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 146 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter 1, The Overseer

• It is the year 1810, in an alternate American frontier where each race is gifted with a different kind of magic.

• Cavil Planter is a God-fearing man who owns a plantation in the northern region of the Appalachee.

• Cavil always tries to obey God, and each time he buys slaves from Africa, he makes sure they are baptized immediately.

• He considers this necessary because, like his white contemporaries, he believes that black people are children of the devil who practice dangerous, evil witchcraft.

• Cavil's wife Dolores suffers from debilitating arthritis and is unable to have children, which is a bitter disappointment for Cavil because he needs to have children to inherit his plantation.


• Cavil remembers the Biblical story of Abraham, whose wife couldn't bear children and how Abraham solved the problem by taking a slave girl, Hagar as a concubine and had children with her.

• Cavil...

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