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Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl - Online Essay

Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl



CHAPTER I
The conditions of this master-slave relationship are that the slave
(Linda) is there to do work for her mistress, or master, which is now her sister'
s daughter. Linda is supposed to take care her new owner's five year old
daughter, help plant things, take care of any animals and anything else she is
told. As a slave, she should also do everything else she is told by her master.
“After a brief period of suspense, the will of my mistress was read, and we
learned that she had bequeathed me to her sister's daughter, a child of five
years old.” I think that before her former master died and she was sent to her
master's sister's daughter, the conditions were different. Linda's ...

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which someone (one of the masters or mistresses) wasn't happy with something
and blamed it on the slave(s), forcing them to deal with the harsh consequences.
An example is when the cook sends dinner out to Dr. Flint. Sometimes, when he
does not like a dish, the cook gets whipped, other times he shoves all the food
down the her throat until she chokes. I feel that this is very offensive
treatment because that is not a justified reason to do something, as severe as
choking someone. Even though she was one of his slaves, instead of doing that,
he could have just told her, or even yelled, to cook something different-she
would have gotten the point. I guess Dr. Flint, just like many other whites,
felt he had to use violence to punish her (even though I totally, strongly,
disagree with his decision, it was probably a “regular” thing to do during that
time period. She being a slave, was probably used to it.

Chapter V
Linda shows her strong moral character in many ways. When she was ...

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