English, 19.04.2021 01:00, morgan4411

Now Jim was a dreamer, but he was a thinker, too. And he thought one day that if he let his owner meet the cooter, he might get his freedom that way. After all, a talkin cooter was a wonderful thing to hear. So Jim went on back to the plantation. He found the slaveowner, and he says, “Mas, I wanter tell you about this cooter down there at the pond.” —“The Talking Cooter,”
Virginia Hamilton

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Jim makes friends with a cooter.
An enslaved man believes a talking cooter will help him gain his freedom.
A talking cooter wants to meet Jim.
Jim is a talking cooter who wants to be a dreamer like his owner.

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