Linda's mixed up emotions.

Linda, at the news of of Dr. Flint's passing, has mixed emotions. Her first thought is, yes, the guy who wanted to have sex with and dominate me is finally dead, but then she realized that little girl who owned her, is no little girl any more. She is a young, married, southern broad who wants her slave back to help out around the house. Linda is scared, rightfully so, and goes into hiding in New York. But then stunningly enough, Mrs. Bruce offers to buy Linda from Mr. and Mrs. Dodge. Thinking that they will never be able to find Linda, the Dodge's want to make a little profit from their missing slave and call it a done deal. Mrs. Bruce then immediately frees her. (Just as a side note and question, I did not realize that this sort of transaction could be done. Did stuff like this happen often in the North, or was this sort of a one time thing? I think it's weird that Mrs. Bruce was able to purchase Linda so easily.) Linda then became the nurse to Mrs. Bruce's child. It was also quite shocking and joyous when Linda's daughter, Ellen, is offered scholorship money to attend school. Although Linda was reluctant to send her child to school, she realized that in order to be successful in life, one needed an education. She also saw it fit for her daughter to receive an education because it was a step away from being a slave. Having an education was something that most slaves of the time did not do.
Although Linda absolutely positively utterly was disgusted, infuriated, and sickened by the institution of slavery, Linda still missed the time that she had spent with her grandmother, and was sad that she could not be with her at her death. Linda was inspired, and motivated to reach freedom, and success by her grandmother's independent nature, and had much in common with her. She missed being able to relate with someone like her grandmother. This was the only thing that Linda missed about her days' as a slave. She had done terrible and awful things to reach her way to freedom, and to get to the North, and in my opinion, it was all justified. She had the right to do whatever it took to climb out of the slimy mud pit that is called slavery.