Elijah of Buxton Vocabulary Terms Spider Map
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Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
By Liane Hicks
Elijah of Buxton is an award winning historical fiction novel told from the perspective of 11-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first child to be born free in the settlement of Buxton in Canada. Buxton is a real place settled by African Americans who had escaped the horrors of enslavement in America. Learn more with activities from Storyboard That.
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- CONJURE
- PADDY ROLLERS
- HAINT
- (v.) call upon (a spirit or ghost) to appear, by means of a magic ritual.
- (n.) Men who kidnapped enslaved people that had escaped. "Paddy rollers" made a business of capturing people and forcing them back into slavery for money. Derived from slave patrols traditionally known as patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers or paddy roller.
- (n.) a type of ghost or evil spirit
- VOCABULARY in ELIJAH OF BUXTON
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