Linda Brent Book Report

In the author's preface, Linda Brent speaks that everything she experienced in slavery, in the north, was strictly true. She trust that her readers excuse her deficiencies in consideration of circumstances. Whenever she would have spare time from household duties she compel herself to write these pages of her experiences in her life. She also says she doesn't write to attract readers because in contrary she would of found it better to keep her history a secret. In the end of her preface she says that even though she doesn't want to tell about her experiences, she wants to make the woman of the north aware about the conditions of two millions of women at the South, still in bondage.

Linda Brent states that she never realizes she was a slave until six years of her happy childhood had passed away. At the age of 6, Linda's mother died and one her death bed, her mistress

promised her that her children shouldn't have to suffer for anything. The slave child's mistress was so kind to her and kept her word but soon one day at the age of twelve, her mistress sickened and died. Her mistress have always how to read and spell, teaching her the precepts of God's Word: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Her mistress had bequeathed her nice and the slave girl knew that she would never again find a mistress as kind as her.
Linda was once again reunited with her brother, Willie into the Flint family with Aunt Nancy.

After learning that her friend died with being at her new home for nearly a year, she learns from her father has died. She had lost her mother, father, mistress, and a friend all together. After her grandmother was told from her dying mistress that she would be free and Dr Flint put her up for sale, her mistress' sister purchase and she was soon freed. Linda learns that the Flints are cold hearted people, having no mercy upon their slaves.

January 1st, every year, is hiring day in the south for the slaves. Linda explains that slaves would be surrounding the area waiting for their masters with all their nothings waiting as their doom is pronounced. She explains that if a slaves is unwilling to go to their new master, they would be brutally beaten until he promises not to run away during the year. Freed women enjoy the pleasant season of New Years while slave mothers experience peculiar sorrows she also explains in contrast. Children would be sold away from away from the mothers, never seeing them

again.
Life at the Flints haven't gotten any better. Mrs Flints has forced Linda Brent to take off new shoes that her grandmother had gave to her because of the sound it makes. Mrs. Flint has compelled her in going barefoot in the snow to run errands. Uncle Benjamin has gotten into an argument with his master then who he which fled from. He was brought to prison where after six years, he was brought by a slave trader only to escape once again on their way to New Orleans. In New York, Benjamin encounters his own brother Philip, who wants to go the south and later on in the story, Aunt Martha purchases him soon being freed