Linda was able to finally escape to the north through the help of her friend Peter. At first when he offered her safe passage to the North, she turned him down due to the killing of a fugitive slave in the recent past that had deeply frightened her grandmother. She instead has Peter take her fugitive friend Fanny to the boat with him. However, eventually her grandmother relented, and Linda joined Fanny on the boat to Philadelphia to begin a new life in a free northern state. This does not end her troubles with the Flint family, who continued to pursue Linda to bring her back home until well after the death of Dr. Flint, but this gave Linda her first experience working for herself and gave a glimpse of what it was like to truly be without a master. The one thing that did upset her about this freedom was the fact that she was never able to see her grandmother while they were both free women even though they both died free.
FREE PHILTHY RICH!!!!!
1 comment:
I agree with most of what you said here, but I feel like some important parts of the end of the book went unmentioned in this blog... Mostly where you said that "The one thing that did upset her about this freedom was the fact that she was never able to see her grandmother while they were both free women even though they both died free." From my interpretation of the text, what upset Linda the most about her freedom was the way she had to obtain it: being sold, in a free state, of all places. While I agree that Linda may have been upset about not being able to see her grandmother before her death, I don't feel it was what she felt the most upset about.
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