Chapter+Summaries

Chapter Summaries for __Send One Angel Down__
 * Chapter one**: In this chapter we meet the two main characters in the book, Eliza and Abram. They both live on a slave plantation in Alabama in 1865. They talk about slave life on the plantation and where both of them work which is in the breeding cabins. Abram, who is the narrator of the story, talks about when he was born his father left him and his mother after she died in child birth. Later in the chapter we meet Aunt Charity and Granny. We never learn what Granny's real name is because all they call her is Granny.**Chapter two**: This chapter is all about life of a house slave. All of the slaves in the cabins go to work in the house preparing the milk for the newborns, plucking turkey feathers for the master's dinner that evening. Abram talks about his methods for taking care of Eliza and how he gets her to go to sleep. After a long day at work, Abram falls asleep fast with Eliza on his chest. **Chapter three**: the slave mothers birth babies every year and how the slave mothers get to keep there first born child but Aunt Charity has her first born child and the Master threatens to sell Eliza but Aunt Charity fights back and gets to keep Eliza. When Aunt Charity has more babies, the master automatically sells the babies that are big enough to be sold at a local auction.