1) How did Linda/Harriet learn how to read?
2) What happens on New Year's Day?
3) Describe her failed escape(s).
4) How did she have a successful escape?
5) What was her life like in hiding?
6) Once she gets up North, does she travel out of the country? Describe her travel out of the country.
7) Does she have a family? What happens to her family?
1) Her first mistress taught her how to read and spell, and from that she taught herself how to write
ReplyDelete2)Basically a big time slave auction, the "hiring day" when all the slaves get sold
2) Were expected to go to work for the new master the very next day. Families torn apart. It sucked a lot.
ReplyDelete6) Went to London. It was awesome. No prejudice. Stayed 10 months.
7) Linda first goes to the Hobbes' (in Brooklyn or Boston--not sure!) and stays with them. They originally said she would be cared for extremely well and sent to school to be educated. But then Mrs. Hobbes says that Mr. Sands gave Ellen to them as a maid for their daughter and Linda is pretty mad. At some point later, Linda gets "custody" of Ellen, they live together for a while, but then Ellen is sent to boarding school where she does extremely well. Linda also writes to her grandmother to send Benny up to Boston with Uncle Phillip and so that happens. Benny "gets a job" but when they find out his background they harass him a bit so he goes on a whaling trip while Linda is in London. Then he comes back and when William's reading group fails, they go to California together. Grandmother dies.