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Emancipation
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As batatas. Olha as batatas dentro de um cesto de vime e pela primeira vez sente a boca cheia d’água. Precisa descascá-las, mas tem preguiça. Sua mãe descascava todas, perfeitamente, como se participasse de um concurso em que um milímetro de casca fosse desclassificá-la. Dá de ombros. Com a mãe morta, a cozinha sendo sua, o direito de não descascar as batatas é desafiador, mas ainda um direito.
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― Algólidas
― Algólidas
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It was no longer a question of the Union as it was, that was to be reestablished; it was the Union as it should be, that is to say, washed clean from its original sin, regenerated on the baptismal font of liberty for all. … Now, we could march with a prouder step, and fight with more confidence. We were no longer merely the soldiers of a political controversy, to be decided by the fate of arms. We were now the missionaries of a great work of redemption, the armed liberators of millions of men be
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― Four Years with the Army of the Potomac
― Four Years with the Army of the Potomac
