Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

  The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Oct. 17th. Eleven of us met over Zoom. This amazing book begins in 1830 when 11 year-old George Washington Black is a field slave on a sugar plantation called Faith in Barbados. His caretaker, a field slave herself, is the indomitable Big Kit. One night he and Big Kit are called upon to serve dinner at the master's house, something highly unlikely, since field slaves never go into the Master's House.  While serving this dinner, the master's brother Christopher examines "Wash" and decides he's just the right size to assist him on his "cloud-cutter," a kind of hot air balloon and implores his brother to let the child become his assistant. Christopher tells Wash to call him "Titch," and encourages him to read, to draw, and to find various plants and animals for study. But he's also a servant. Titch likes to act the part of the great abolitionist but it's questiona