Beware of people who maintain that "a watched pot never boils". They suffer from a major character flaw. Namely, a lack of patience.
Of course a watched pot boils. I've seen it happen many, many times. No doubt there have been many, many better things I could have & should have been doing at the time. But, let's nevermind about that.
Slaves who fled their masters were classified as insane. This term came from Dr. Samuel Cartwright who was an apologist for slavery in the pre-Civil War era. This release of my Anoka Time file is a look at slavery in the modern context of Minnesota N