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I love John Clarkson. I value what he is doing for the negroes very much. I thought Nova Scotia was going to be a place of virtue and prosperity for the Negroes, but it is evident that was never going to happen. At first I didn't believe he was truly going to help. When he rode into Birchtown I thought he was the bearer of bad news but I was obviously proven wrong. I never believed Aminata would make it back to Africa, not in a million years. Because it was such a long and painful journey the first time I thought it would be just the same going back. But sure enough Aminata became John Clarsons assistent and away they went. It upset me she was pulled off the ship at the very beggining and when Robinson Appleby showed up at the Frances Tavern I almost threw my book across the room I was so upset. I was so pleased that in the end Lindo let her free from Appleby and himself as well to let her have her freedom and return to her homeland.

When the boats pulled up the harbour just as the slave ship was leaving it broke my heart. I felt that in no time all of those very lucky people would be sent back across the American to enslaved yet again. I was very discouraged when Clarkson made a trade with a man from the slave ship, but he made a good point by saying that they all have to pick and chose their battles or else they would break out in war. At that point in the novel i was starting to feel that the slave trade was abolishing but at that point my idea was crushed and my heart sank to the floor. I was so scared for the people on those boats, especially dur to the fact they were so close to Bance Island, so close to the very place Meena had been deported. Clarkson assured the people they would be safe and I believed him to an extent. The way the Company ran the coloney tho I don't see as being something good for the negro folk. The Company isn't truly giving them freedom which is not keeping their word. Upon arrival at Seirra Leone the King's assertion with Aminata surprised me; saying that they would be married. It surprises me that the Tamne people don't see the "Nova Scotian" people as equals either. When the line of people who were chained at their necks walked through Freetown I was disgusted with Clarkson because slavery was supposed to be non-exsistent withing Freetown. It was the King himself who organized the slave trade in that area but he was the one who also promised no slavery to be relevant in that area. I lost a lot of respect for that man, well actually all of the very little I had of him in the first palce. I really hope he doesn't actually marry Meena. :S