Life in the North

Life in the north isn’t all that Linda thought it would be at all. Linda is living day by day, fearing for her life because she is still a slave. She realizes that even if she isn’t a slave, people still don’t treat her equally because she’s African American, and it’s very similar to the south where she came from. Linda finally attains her freedom from a white patron purchasing her freedom. She is so happy that she is finally free, but then she’s also sad because she wasn’t born free. She isn’t happy to live in such a place where freedom has to be bought for certain people, and where people of a different ethnicity are treated with such cruelty and indignity. She doesn’t quite know if she should be happy or sad or angry, or what to do.