In chapter two of the text Slotkin writes about when Prescott Oakes who serves as an attorney at law came to Tom Lincoln and Abe and gives them papers. ... "At first he had to spell his way into it slow, but after a couple of days the words broke loose like crick-ice letting go in a thaw and started to run together, then he was off to Aesop-country inside his head, and lived there the better part of a month." ... Konkapot "showed Abe where sang-roots like to grow, how to spot their wiry stems and berry-buds in a tangle of weeds." ...

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"It's a weary life, it is; she said: - Doubly blank in a woman's lot: I wish and I wish I were a man; Or, better than any being, were not" In the above lines, taken from Christina Rossetti's From the Antique, she lets her speaker openly express female discontent. Apart from displaying the speaker's...

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