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Which Way To Freedom Obi Character Analysis

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In Which Way to Freedom, Obi the main character escaped from the Jennings plantation with his friends Buka and Easter. Obi left because he wanted to go find his mother Lorena. They went out to Tennessee to a plantation but the Confederates took over or also known as fort Pillow. Which they built on the plantation which was owned by the son and he gave it to the Confederates to use. This was a problem for Obi and them they had to get across the river to the Yankee camps. They needed a way to get across so they made boats from weaving grass together and started going across the river as the Yankee gunboat started shooting at the Confederate camps. When they got to the other side the fire went down. They stayed at the camps for a while, then the

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