Jack Book 1, The Rebel

Master Whittemore quit preaching the moral rightness of slavery to sailors aboard the 'Helena' - an illegal slave ship - to teach children in Charleston, S.C.but Jack rebels against him and defeats him during a trumped-up "trial" master conducts in his schoolhouse.. Later that evening, the master, drunk, after some reflection, sees the criticism his students made that his praises of the plantation slavery system were wrong. He quits teaching and returns to the Helena on the ruse that he wil...