Which sentence does not support the idea voiced in the excerpt from "the selling of joseph"? most negros are not happy as slaves, but there is no term of service, and white people do not want negros to become free. negros look different from other races and cannot easily fit into white society or join white families, so they remain outsiders. negros are often taught about holiness to the lord and serve their masters well in spite of not enjoying personal freedoms. many negros are cruelly taken away from their countries and their families only to face continued cruelty aboard ships and in a strange land.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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not concrete, existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence