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ericasmerica1
ericasmerica1
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High School - 9th Grade

When Phillip Nolan in The Man Without a Country, helps tell the enslaved Africans that they are free, what is their greatest concern?

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Posted by ericasmerica1 on Saturday July 5, 2008 at 4:08 PM and tagged with philip nolan, plot, slavery, the man without a country.

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  1. jilllessa Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

    Nolan's ship had come upon a Portuguese vessel transporting illegal slaves.  Nolan speaks Portuguese and volunteers to translate for the Captain.  When he tells the slaves that they are free; they rejoice and dance with joy, until the captain tells them that he will bring them to Cape Palmas rather than where they came from.  Then the joy turned to despair.  How could they get home from there?  They cried that their families needed them.  It did nothing for them to be free if they could not go home.  They loved their homes and their homeland.  This reaction affected Nolan greatly and as he translated his agony was apparent so that even the "Negroes stopped howling as they saw Nolan's agony."  Captain Vaughn also saw and felt their agony so he agreed to take them home.

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    Posted by jilllessa on Sunday July 6, 2008 at 11:51 PM