I know this may start controversy but it's not oppressed if they don't know they're oppressed. But if being abused then let them free yes, but on the terms of being oppressed then no.
It means they are physician fine but mentally they feel down or a feeling of low self esteem or simply being over worked.
The above excerpt highlights the conflict between:
the Phippsburg townspeople, who do not think much of Malaga Island, and Turner, who comes to love the island.
The story “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy” is about the life of a young white boy. He witnesses a change in his life when he meets a black American girl of his same age. The story has been inspired by historical situations and events. The theme of the story revolves around freedom and imprisonment. Since Tuner was the son of the minister, he was expected to maintain the decorum because of which he has to avoid his youthful and jolly nature. At the end of the story Reverend sides with the Phippsburg townspeople against the people of Malaga Island as the Reverend comes to know that Turner had went to the Island with Lizzie.
B) because there was a possibility of their whole day being ruined because of the rain.
