Why would the people left behind in slavery continue to tell this story even after winning their freedom? What did flight symbolize to them? Use examples from the text to support your answers.

to feel the need of comfort or security

Explanation: even if slaves won their freedom back then... they feel the need to keep repeating it and not let it go. They feel as if they don't, it'll go back to the way it was. They do these things in utter fear and they just assume the worst all the time.

ichabod crane is a fictional character and the protagonist in washington irving's short story, "the legend of sleepy hollow", first published in 1820. in popular culture, this story is sometimes retitled as "the headless horseman."

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.