<span>"His historical researches, however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the former are lamentably scanty on his favorite topics; whereas he found the old burghers, and still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore, so invaluable to true history. Whenever, therefore, he happened upon a genuine Dutch family, snugly shut up in its low-roofed farmhouse, under a spreading sycamore, he looked upon it as a little clasped volume of black-letter,' and studied it with the zeal of a book-worm.""Rip Van Winkle," 1994 edition, 1-2
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Explanation:
First paragraph gives us insight into the way in which slaves were dehumanised. ... Douglass makes his first suggestion that slavery changes white people this is referred to ... Violence against women.
He's saying that if he was a beast, he wouldn't understand right from wrong or be able to realize that slavery is evil, and he'd rather that than stay a slave, knowing he deserves better.
He wants to respect Olivia's needs for an extended period of time to grieve her brothers death
Cows flying through the air among the dusty clouds.
A giant tree connecting the earth and the sky.
The cattle walking down the branches of the fig tree.
The narrator being the granddaughter of a god.
