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The Mariner hopes this person will shrieve his soul and wash away the albatross’ blood.

Identify the context and significance of this quotation from Douglass’ Narrative (4-6 good sentences):   This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins who, in return, would give me the more valuable bread of knowledge. . . . I sometimes would say to them, I wished I could be as free as they would be when they got to be men. “You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life!  Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?”  These words used to trouble them; they would express for me the liveliest sympathy, and console me with the hope that something would occur by which I might be free. 

He was owner of the plantation house; Captain Anthony’s boss; kept a large and finely cultivated garden.

He was shot and killed by Mr. Gore because he refused to come out of the creek.

Along with Wright Fairbanks, this “humble follower of the Lord Jesus Christ” broke up Douglass’ Sabbath school with rocks and sticks

He is a “sadder” and a “wiser” man after hearing the Ancient Mariner’s tale.  

She married her much older husband after being the governess in his family.

About this person, Douglass says, “I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.”   

In one way slabs the slab load is distributed in two directions

In one way slabs the beams are not carrying any loads.