Freedom

Linda finally gets her freedom because Mrs. Hobbs brother, who promises her that since her grandmother was so kind to him would not tell Dr. Flint where she is, writes to Dr. Flint about her whereabouts. This causes her to confess everything about her life to Mrs. Bruce and Mrs. Bruce, like the nice women she was, decides to help her escape from Dr. Flints arrival. She first sends Linda to one of her friends houses, where she was supposed to wait for William to arrive. Because Mrs. Hobbs feels bad for what her brother did, she decides to let Ellen stay with Linda for a few days, so Linda is met by her daughter also. Everyone involved then decide that Linda and her children should go to Boston, because of the small number of southerners in the area, so she gets on a boat and travels to Boston, and later she gets on a train. Once she reaches Boston with her children, she decides that they both get a better education and learn a trade. Mrs. Bruce ended up dieing, and Linda, because she needed work, decided to take Mary to London. She is there long enough for Dr. Flint to go back to the South. She continues to travel from place to place for a while, until she learns that Dr. Flint died. She finally becomes free because the new Mrs. Bruce sends Mrs. Flint a letter asking if she could buy her and her children. She has mixed emotions because even though she is in these free states, since she was an escaped slave from a slave state, there were new laws that make it possible for her to be returned to the master. Also she is faced with unfair treatment. The north isn't as free as she hoped it would be. She also feels mixed emotions because she feels as she was finally sold as property so she wasn't really free.