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?