Incidents Blog #2

     Pages 87 to 107 were the best part of the book so far. Many new events happened that will change the book from now on. A very interesting part was when she decided to run away even though she would have to leave her children and hurt her grandmother. " I was about to risk every thing on the throw of a die ; and if I failed, O what would become of me and my poor children? They would be made to suffer for my fault" (97). This was a shocking way to leave to me because I expected she would try to take her children with her instead of abandoning them. But she had a plan because she wanted Dr. Flint to sell them but he didn't he put them in jail. Another shocking part of this section was she did not write with lots of emotion when she heard that her children were put into jail. "When I heard that my little ones were in a loathsome jail, my first impulse was to go to them" (103). This part struck me also because her children are very young and as a mother she would want to be with them but she did not go. She did not talk about this event in too much emotion after this but anyone else would go on and on about this event and would return to them. But under her circumstances I understand why she did not return. I have one question for Jacobs. How did knowing that your children were in jail because you ran away and the only way you could get them out was to return to slavery?

Incedents Blog #1

These chapters are very interesting to me. First, with all the events that happen Jacobs shows very little emotion for things that some one today would write pages and pages about.  When she is not allowed to marry the man who proposed to her she shows a little emotion at first but later after she is confronted by her master on the subject she shows no great effect. " If you must have a husband, you make take up with one of my slaves.' What a situation I should be in, as the wife of one of slaves, even if my heart had been interested"(38). The master doesn't even consider her proposal to let the man to buy her. Another interesting thing is that her mistress despised her so much that she asked her about Jacobs and her husband. Jacobs promises to tell her the truth and the mistress protects her for a little but then turns on her like a pit-bull. "She changed her tactics. She now tried the trick of accusing my master of crime, in my presence, and gave my name  as the author of the accusation"(33). Before I heard this I thought that Jacobs could use her mistress for a little safety but I realized that her mistress was not trying to help her at all. This was a very interesting reading but I do have one question for Jacobs, why did you not run away when your master was abusing you and set yourself free from those things, why did you put up with it?