Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl entry 3

In later chapters, I noticed acouple of interesting things that were occuring. One thing that strike me as very interesting was the white men searching for the slaves in the Nat Turner rebellion. They had absolutley no idea what the slaves even looked like or even how to speak proper english! For example " We's got 'em! Dis 'ere yaller gal's got letters" (Jacobs 67). These men obviously are not the brightest. They thought the letter was about escaping when it was really letter to family and friends. But even an uneducated white man was trusted more than a educate black man. Another thing that was interesting was How Dr.Flint would physically assult her and scream at her in front of her kids. At the beginning I though Dr.Flint was just obsessed with Jacobs, but later on I realize he just flat out insane. For example " He caught him up and hurled him across the room" (Jacobs 82). He threw a five year old across the room, how cruel and insane could a person be. At first Linda Brent was Dr. Flints obsession, now shes' his addiction.