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Through all of this, Anna is the settlement's work horse: she identifies as much with the farm's animals as with its people. She does the work of a "horse, a man, and a woman;" even the horse Blakken is shown more consideration. Anna goes out during blizzards to gather moss for feed, markets the farm's produce, and generally takes care of her diffident owners. Not until she and the others at Haugsetvolden reach old age is there much of a tone of tenderness between them...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: A Twentieth Century Slave | 4/17/1975 | See Source »

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