The resentments of children toward parents are often illogical. But irrational resentments eat away at the soul just as destructively as rational ones. Thus the anger in Jake’s heart festered and deepened its hold on his dawning character. As the decade of the 1850s came to an end, talk of freedom was everywhere. Some folks were even talking about war. Jake had never heard the name Abraham Lincoln and knew nothing about elections or politics. But he could tell that things were changing. Jake was