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“I took a good deal o pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for his-self. Its the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
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