— Ginna Lopez
After all the obstacles Linda had to go through to get to the north, she finds that things were not as she thought. This is most likely what happens when you emigrate, thinking that you are going to solve your life but then you face another reality which is practically the same with a different point of view. Going back to the book, the North states make believe that slavery has been abolished but they kept putting into use some restrictions for color people which are considered discriminatory and humiliating. For example, when Linda had to face discrimination as stated in the text, “I was no sooner seated, than a gruff voice said, “Get up! You know you are not allowed to sit here.” I looked up, and, to my astonishment and indignation, saw that the speaker was a colored man.” But whatever the circumstances were, Linda never gave up, she remained firm with her plan, her quest for her freedom and for her children. As I mentioned in a previous response, Linda lives in a constant uncertainty when she was in the South, now that she is in the North, I can tell that her uncertainty is less because she was able to be reunited with her family, her daughter Ellen and her brother William but she still feel insecure in this new environment where she thought she was going to encounter less persecution but it was the opposite because every time she had to take Mary (the baby she was nursing) for daily walks, she was afraid that anyone from the south will recognize her and inform Dr. Flint which it happened later on, he found out where she was so she had to scape once again. I admired Linda’s strength from the beginning because she was aware of the injustice that people of color lived, and she wanted to fight for her right to freedom in which she achieved. The entire book is based on Jacob’s real experiences and it shows that most of the time there will be obstacles to get where you want to be.
