Linda’s father. Although he is a slave, he works independently as a carpenter on the condition of paying his mistress a certain amount of money each year. Because of this arrangement, Linda spends the early years of her childhood comparatively unaware of her enslavement. Father strives to impart dignity and self-respect to Linda and William, and to combat the degradation caused by slavery; for example, he tells them that they should always obey their parents above their mistress, even though doing so is against the law. Father dies during Linda’s first year of living with the Flints.
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I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? He was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach…
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Father Quotes in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Chapter 2
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I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? He was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach…
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