The Price of a Child

The Price of a Child
This picture shows the first place where Mercer goes when she speaks on behalf of slavery. I chose this scene because it shows that everyone is not the same but one person can bring a whole group of people together. This was one of my favorite scenes in the story because of the struggle she goes threw to tell the people her story. She is relieved at the end of the chapter how the group of people reacted towards her speech. In this drawing, Mercer is speaking to a congregation at a Methodist church in Massachusetts to kick off her speaking tour. She spoke in front of only about twenty-four people and about three happen to be blacks who came to support and listen to Mercer. Mercer was scared of the fact that what she was planning to say would be taking as being arrogant. She was very nervous of the way people were going to react to her speech. Her knees and her hands were shaking, as she was getting ready to speak for the first time about a serious time in her life. She talks about the freedom and “the misery of millions of people”, and the mayhem and murders in many countries. She later comes to realize towards the end of her speech the congregation enjoyed what she had to say.