You could argue that this is an indication of Walter Cunningham's severe poverty. He is very poor, and poor people did not have access to sweets or treats such as molasses syrup, so when he was offered it he deemed it appropriate to drench his entire lunch in it.
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In the United States, voting poll taxes (whose payment was a precondition to voting in an election) have been used to disenfranchise impoverished and minority voters (especially under Reconstruction).
One half of Canada's population lives in southern low land.
Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and then settled in Rhode Island and started the Baptist Church.
