1. The most memorable part of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is when Linda hid for “nearly seven years” (Jacobs122) in a place that is not even bearable for mosquitoes (101). Reading chapter after chapter of Linda hiding in such an uncomfortable space was enough to make my hatred for slavery even worse than I had ever imagined. For greater freedom, she lay day after day in a place in which she could not stand or move easily (96). I thought about how she was so close to her children, but unable to share in their young lives (96). I could almost feel the cold and heat coming from the open exposure of the “thin shingle roof” (98). It tears my thoughts apart beyond my comprehension. This is the most memorable to me because she suffered more in her attempts to be free than she spoke of suffering in slavery. She stated that her life as a slave was "relatively free of difficulties" (96), but that she was prepared to imprison herself in a horrible and harrowing hiding place. She renounced involuntary servitude for voluntary imprisonment. She had nothing to protect her. All she had was the absence of emotional abuse, moral filth and sexual abuse. I have to wonder if all of this was worth the suffering? Or what more could have been done?2. Jacobs suggests that slavery affects both owners and slaves. In his book, I see that slavery “dulls the moral sense” of the owners (Jacobs 33). Even Mr. Flint was “the father of eleven slaves” (32), but he did not hesitate to sell them or call himself “their master” (33). Slave owners considered their slaves property and did with them what they saw fit. Mr. Flint emotionally abused Linda with 'agitated, greedy, vicious...stinging words' middle of paper......customs are evident in both stories where wealth controls the poor and white Americans control the immigrants. Slaves and factory workers should pay a high price for a better life, that's money talking.8. Peers – Do you think America still has the mentality that race places someone at a different social status than others? Are there current examples where we can see race portrayed as evil, like people of color in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl? Works Cited Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the life of a slave. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2001. Print. Woods, Alex. WPA Slave Narrative Project, North Carolina Narratives, Volume 11, Part 2; pages 415-419. Web.Woods, Tom W. WPA Slave Narrative Project, Oklahoma Narratives, Volume 13; pages 354 to 358. Web.Woods, Uncle Wes. WPA Slave Narrative Project, Kentucky Narratives, Volume 7; pages 24 to 26. Web.