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Part I (pages 1 - 49)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black. Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

• This novel is written in the first-person, past tense. The first section is Part I, titled Faith Plantation, Barbados. 1830.

• In Chapter 1, Washington Black was 10 or 11 years old when his first master at Faith Plantation, Richard Black, died.

• Washington had a strong bond with another slave, Big Kit, a large woman who had taken him under her wing.

• The new master, Erasmus Wilde, a nephew of Richard Black's, arrived some months later.

• The slaves immediately saw that Wilde was a cruel and brutal man.

• Washington believed once Big Kit got the measure of Wilde, she resolved to kill both herself and him.

• In Chapter 2, Washington had no one but Big Kit during his childhood.

• Big Kit had taken Washington under her wing early on and...

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