Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl entry 1

It is absolutley crazy how Linda Brent doesn't tell her grandomother about the abuse shes is recieving from Dr. Flint. If that was happening to me, my grandmother would be one of the first people I would tell! It seems as if Linda doesn't want to tell her grandmother because she is scared of the consequences of telling her. Linda says "I would have given the world to have laid my head on my grandmother'ss faithful bosom, and told her all my troubles. But Dr. Flint swore he would kill me"(Jacobs 28). She knows that if she tells her grandmother then she will abused physically and sexually even more than shes was being before. I agree with Linda, though I don't think there would only be one person to worry about, I think her grandma would be extremley angry and may scream or even strike at Dr. Flint. It is amazing how much plantation owners do not tell their slaves. She explains how one slave thought " America was governed by a queen to which the president was subordinate" (Jacobs 45). It is sad and astonishing how uneducated and unaware some slaves were of what was going on in heir country. I think the reason they wouldn't tell slaves what was going on waas they thought they would be less likely to run away if they had no idea where they were going. And what they were getting themselves into. The way Jacobs writes is unique and gives the reader an interesting view on how bad slavery was.