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Colonial America
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The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713:
"Do I look like a schoolmaster to you?"
"No, but you talk like one."
"You know something of schoolmasters, do you?"
"Yes, sir," the boy says, faltering a bit as he sees the jaws of the trap swinging toward his leg.
"Yet here it is the middle of Monday—"
"The place was empty 'cause of the Hanging. I didn't want to stay and—"
"And what?"
"Get more ahead of the others than I was already."
"If you are ahead, the corr
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― Quicksilver
― Quicksilver
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Unlike others before him, Oglethorpe felt the disadvantaged could be reclaimed if they were given a fair chance.
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― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
