Does this mean he is free?

what does this mean?

She saw her son and the Indians didn't shoo him away. They offer her kindness if not direct

She hadn't practiced a sabbath before, why is she upset about this one?

She didn't even pass through the water like a baptism entails she skirted over it in a raft. It even dictates that "my food did not wet"

Men who would die for the benefit of the tribe. A war with the English army

it seems like she isn't exactly bothered by captivity. Although I understand her urging her not because she's pregnant and due soon. But shouldn't she at least think about running away too if she's captive and unhappy.

What is the significance to this chapter?

They treat captives with more kindness than the Englishmen do. They still let her have access to religious texts.

They took the time to bury it upon a hill and to tell her where her baby was buried

No one should go through the death of a baby. Why is there no distinguishing language about the baby? no possessive descriptions or even a name

Seems like herbal remedies which are common from pagans and Native Americans

I thought her children died??

It seems to be that the once off act of kindness might actually be a pattern

God's mercy and love kept them alive through to the morning

Why is God with her all of a sudden? I'm sensing a theme of Christianity and praising the Lord.

Quite interesting since they are 'barbaric' creatures. Why would they carry her wounded baby on a horse showing kindness to her?

Alluding to how the Englishmen killed the Natives and took them slaves as a way of profit.

Are these characters to be followed up on?

Shows the disconnect that English people felt at the time and the animistic view of Native Americans that was portrayed.

Her being in Native American territory somehow denotes her English nature?

Focusing on the specific word "way", Jesus Christ states in the book of John "Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6. It seems to me that Mary is finding comfort or "revival" within these specific verses because they have to do with submission of one's human will to that of God's will.

"Mine eyes have seen" is a phrase that comes up numerous times throughout scripture (Luke 3:20) and it is also in the popular hymn, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" A song which evokes a lot of faith and patriotism for many Americans

Again, hunger comes up. Mary speaks of both the need for nourishment both physically and spiritually.

Photo of Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin: three of the most prominent African American writers of the Civil Rights era. Image credit: New York Public Library Digital Collections.

This is such a powerful articulation--borrowed from Baldwin as the epigraph makes clear--of the social construct of whiteness.

A riff on the title of TNC's forthcoming book, itself a a riff on WEB Du Bois's famous description of black experience in The Souls of Black Folk (1903). As he opens that book in a chapter entitled "Of Our Spiritual Strivings":

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it.

Hard not to relate this piece to another great statement of African American experience: Frederick Douglass's 1841 speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”

Such an ambivalent phrase. The narrator seems to be claiming that this is a "moment" unparalleled in its significance. Yet this significance is "undetermined"; it remains unclear exactly how the moment is significant.

A line from Elvie Thomas's "Motherless Child Blues":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmj23UrVF80

The trope of the motherless child is a popular one in African American art. Of course the destruction of families was a major consequence of the slave trade and the institution of slavery.