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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by colonel lloyd the ancestor colonel sanders wishes he could

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forget Check out the following passage generally explosive slavery in

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maryland You refused this argument of line join in paris

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and i'm going alone Okay here we go Which of

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the following is the main theme of the passage And

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here the potential answers our theme Most slave owner maryland

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think slavery All right well when we're trying to find

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a main theme we're searching for the biggest overarching idea

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the passage has to offer it's important not to let

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smaller ideas lure us off the path might end up

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like bilbo and the dwarves in mirkwood and seriously hate

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giant spiders All right let's take a whack it choice

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Even though douglas does briefly touch on the idea that

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slavery is big in the south and not the north

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he doesn't spend too long lecturing us on the topic

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That would be a boring lecture since everybody knows that

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already There's no way the north south dissimilarity is the

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main idea Answer c doesn't look like main idea material

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either Douglas does point out that people think maryland's brand

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of slavery is milder than the deep south but then

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he spends the rest of the passage talking about the

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colonel's hidden pocket of awfulness in maryland Troisi just doesn't

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make the cut option a is wrong for a couple

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of reasons One douglas doesn't do a lot of talking

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bout most slave owners and to the slave owner douglas

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does focus on keeps his activities on the serious de

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el Yeah joyce d is the best answer Basically douglas

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is trying to show that harsh slavery exists in maryland

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even though everybody thinks it's full of a more easygoing

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form of slavery a ziff that would somehow be okay

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