Incidents blog #4

     It is great that Jacobs has finally made it to freedom, but she is not totally free because of the Fugitive slave act. " He told us he was a Southerner by birth, and had spent the greater part of  his life in the Slave States, and that he had recently lost a brother who traded in slaves. 'But,' said he, 'it is a pitiable and degrading buisness, and I always felt ashamed to acknowledge my brother in connection with it" (162). It was great that the captain helped her even though that he is a Southerner and he even has family who traded slaves. These people must have been rare at the time but not as rare as I once thought, many people helped slaves but they were greatly outnumbered. Another interesting part was she saw her daughter for the first time since she left from the South. " I turned, and there stood my Ellen ! I pressed her to my heart, then held her away from me to take a look at her" (170). This must have been a great feeling for Jacobs and her daughter. This could have been a great conclusion to the book. But will she ever find her son, or does she after she is finished writing the book.?