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Sir Francis Tyler is Kit’s grandfather whom she grew up with and loved dearly. Kit and her grandfather live in Barbados, and Kit has to move to Connecticut after he dies because she can’t support herself. While in New England, Kit feels homesick for her grandfather and her life in Barbados. Prior to his death, Sir Francis Tyler owned a plantation, where he enslaved hundreds of Black people. Kit, who condones slavery, likely inherited her racist thinking from her grandfather. Nat criticizes Kit for supporting a practice that exploits and brutally deprives other humans of their rights, though Kit never changes her racist thinking. Kit also adopts her grandfather’s royalist politics, demonstrating how people often conform to the viewpoints they grow up around.
Grandfather (Sir Francis Tyler) Quotes in The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The The Witch of Blackbird Pond quotes below are all either spoken by Grandfather (Sir Francis Tyler) or refer to Grandfather (Sir Francis Tyler). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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“How did you think they got there? Did you fancy they traveled from Africa in private cabins like yours?”
She had never thought about it at all. “But don’t you have slaves in America?”
“Yes, to our shame! Mostly down Virginia way. But there are plenty of fine folk like you here in New England who’ll pay a fat price for black flesh without asking any questions how it got here. If my father would consent to bring back just one load of slaves we would have had our new ketch by this summer. But we Eatons, we’re almighty proud that our ship has a good honest stink of horses!”
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Chapter 3
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“You mean that, just on an impulse, you left your rightful home and sailed halfway across the world?”
“No, it was not an impulse exactly. You see, I really had no home to leave.”
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Chapter 12
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“The river is so blue today,” [Kit] said sleepily. “It could almost be the water in Carlisle Bay.”
“Homesick?” asked Nat casually, his eyes on the blue strip of water.
“Not here,” she answered. “Not when I’m in the meadow, or with Hannah.”
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Grandfather (Sir Francis Tyler) Quotes in The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The The Witch of Blackbird Pond quotes below are all either spoken by Grandfather (Sir Francis Tyler) or refer to Grandfather (Sir Francis Tyler). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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“How did you think they got there? Did you fancy they traveled from Africa in private cabins like yours?”
She had never thought about it at all. “But don’t you have slaves in America?”
“Yes, to our shame! Mostly down Virginia way. But there are plenty of fine folk like you here in New England who’ll pay a fat price for black flesh without asking any questions how it got here. If my father would consent to bring back just one load of slaves we would have had our new ketch by this summer. But we Eatons, we’re almighty proud that our ship has a good honest stink of horses!”
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Chapter 3
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“You mean that, just on an impulse, you left your rightful home and sailed halfway across the world?”
“No, it was not an impulse exactly. You see, I really had no home to leave.”
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Chapter 12
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“The river is so blue today,” [Kit] said sleepily. “It could almost be the water in Carlisle Bay.”
“Homesick?” asked Nat casually, his eyes on the blue strip of water.
“Not here,” she answered. “Not when I’m in the meadow, or with Hannah.”
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