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Identify the name of the author and the title of the work. Then analyze the passage. “I was here,” said Topsy, wiping the tears from her eyes. “O, Miss Eva, I’ve been a bad girl; but won’t you give me one, too?” “Yes, poor Topsy! to be sure, I will. There–every time you look at that, think that I love you, and wanted you to be a good girl!” “O, Miss Eva, I is tryin!” said Topsy, earnestly; “but, Lor, it’s so hard to be good! ‘Pears like I ain’t used to it, now ways!” “Jesus knows it, Topsy; he is sorry for you he will help you.” Topsy, with her eyes hid in her apron, was silently passed for the apartment by Miss Ophelia; but as she went, she hid the precious curl in her bosom”
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Identify the name of the author and the title of the work. Then analyze the passage. The battle with Mr. Covey was the turning-point in my career as a slave. It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived with me a sense of my womanhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free. The gratification afforded by the triumph was a full compensation for whatever else might follow, even death itself. . . . It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of freedom.
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