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Topsy

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Topsy
young slave girl; completely naive. [Am. Lit.: Uncle Tom’s Cabin]
See : Naïveté
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With a self-sacrifice which some of our readers will appreciate, she resolved, instead of comfortably making her own bed, sweeping and dusting her own chamber,--which she had hitherto done, in utter scorn of all offers of help from the chambermaid of the establishment,--to condemn herself to the martyrdom of instructing Topsy to perform these operations,--ah, woe the day
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
 
 
 
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