Slave Girl
...telling her master that she wanted to marry him. It was little things like this that Linda’s master did to keep her from having any sort of freedom what so ever. Abuse as a slave was very common, not only physical abuse, but also verbal abuse was very common. Linda was abused on a daily basis, more verbally than physically, and the amount of abuse varied daily depending on her master and her mistress. Linda’s master one night made her sleep in his bed, and her mistress was not too happy about it. Linda was forced to tell her mistress what happened and her mistress punished her by making her sleep in a room right next to hers. At night Linda would sometimes wake up to her mistress stand over her bed staring at her. Linda had many hardships growing up as a young slave girl such as both of her parents dying, being separated from her siblings, and being separated from her grandmother. Luckily for Linda she was real close to her grandmother and her grandmother was free, so occasionally Linda would get to visit her. To top off all the loved ones she had lost and be separated from, she had to deal with the daily struggle of being a slave, not knowing if she would ever become free. The course themes expressed in this book are the struggle is the essential ingredient of any effort to achieve political, social, economic, and ideological freedom; economic interests shape the political, social, and ideological context of American society; federal versus states’ rights battles continue to dominate the c...