The Price of a
Child: Adult Literacy Curriculum Guide
Questions Generated by Even Start
Students
from the Marshall and Duckery Schools
- Mattie-boy and baby Bennie-boy were Ginnie Pryor's two youngest children fathered by Jackson Pryor. Was Joellen (The Bat) Pryor aware that the boys were her husband's flesh and blood?
- Discuss the slave woman being the master's sexual property. How did the wives of these slave holders feel about their husbands bedding their black women servants? Were the wives particularly interested or didn't they really care about what was taking place?
- How do the Quaker's Underground Railroad stops make it possible for runaway slaves to ride to freedom?
- Explain why a white man, Passmore Williamson, would help slaves. What is a Vigilance Committee?
- Discuss the term pickaninnies as it is used in the story.
- The skin color of Blacks is of many hues. Discuss why this may be so.
- What may be reasons for Ginnie not to take the opportunity for freedom?
- Should Ginnie leave Bennie-boy for her freedom and the freedom of Etta and Mattie? Why or why not?
- Brainstorm ways Ginnie may someday be reunited with her son, Bennie, if she decides to take the step to freedom.
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