November 13

The life that Linda had wanted in the North was not the same one that she ended up having. She encountered many problems one of them being racism and having to run from the people that owned her in the South. Linda finally gets her freedom when Mrs. Bruce bargains with Mr. Dodge to buy Linda and allow her children to be free. Mrs. Bruce pays three hundred dollars for her, but gives Linda her freedom. Linda is happy to be free, but she doesn’t feel it was right that someone had to pay for her freedom. Mr. Dodge didn’t technically own her; Mrs. Dodge did, so the money really shouldn’t have been given to him. Linda also did not fully agree with it because she didn’t think that people should be bought since it was treating them like animals even if it did give her freedom.