... into slavery to loving parents who are extremely well off for a slave family. In the beginning, Linda Brent is in no way naïve to her situation, but she is a child of innocence. Her parents give her a sense of self-worth. They taught her "to feel that she was a human being," strength many slaves never came to know (Jacobs 12). Eventually, Linda's mother dies and she is sent to live with her mother's mistress. The mistress teaches Linda to read; however, before she can do more for Linda she dies and Linda eventually finds her way into the Flint family. Eventually, Dr. Flint begins pressuring Linda sexually; he threatens her and uses explicit language around her. Linda constantly evades his advances, but what she cannot run from is his wife's jealousy. Because of Flint's favoritism towards Brent, she is destined to live a more unpleasant life that had ...

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