Incidents in the Life of a Slave Gir
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| show | 3/18 power of sentimentality
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| But, alas! we all know that the memory of a faithful slave does not avail much to save her children from the auction block. | show 🗑
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| show | 3/18 virtue is extremely important to white women because of motherhood and wife
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| Are you mad? If you are, I will soon bring you to your senses. Do you think any other master would bear what I have borne from you this morning? Many masters would have killed you on the spot. How would you like to be sent to jail for your insolence? | show 🗑
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| show | Linda’s nostalgia for her childhood and comfort that she derives from her childhood home contrasts with the lack of protection it actually affords her, thus setting up a tension between the value of family life and the threats posed to it by slavery.
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| show | These misfortunes will help convince Linda that it’s useless to live by the “rules” of slavery, and imperative to escape it altogether.
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| When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. As I saw the cheek grow paler, and the eye more glassy, how earnestly I prayed in my heart that she might live! I loved her; for she had been almost like a mother to me. | show 🗑
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| 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 Sve years old. So vanished our hopes. | show 🗑
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| As a child, I loved my mistress; and, looking back on the happy days I spent with her, I try to think with less bitterness of this act of injustice. While I was with her, she taught me to read and spell; and for this privilege, which so rarely falls to | show 🗑
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| show | Dr. Flint tries to convince Linda that she’s being unchaste by refusing his advances, even though she’s trying to create a respectable life and marriage for herself
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| I could have had a home shielded by the laws; and I should have been spared the painful task of confessing what I am now about to relate; but all my pros pects had been blighted by slavery. I wanted to keep myself pure; and, under the most adverse circu | show 🗑
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| I went to my grandmother. My lips moved to make confession, but the words stuck in my throat. I sat down in the shade of a tree at her door and began to sew. I think she saw something unusual was the matter with me. The mother of slaves is very watchfu | show 🗑
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