Today in America everyone is seen as an equal. We all have the same rights, and no matter where you’re from, what your job is or how much money you make you’re treated fairly. Unfortunately America wasn’t always like this, and in “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, Linda is the perfect example of how someone from a different social class can be treated so unjustly.
Slaves in this time weren’t seen as equals to white men, and it was very evident in the way they were treated. Poor housing, horrible working conditions and the lack of any basic human rights were just a few of the hardships that a person from the lowest social class, the social class of a slave, had to endure. It was these types of circumstances that pushed Linda to the extreme of running away from her master even faced with death if she was caught. But realistically Linda had no choice. Without even the ability to buy her own freedom Linda was left with only one way out.
Had Linda been born into any other social class at that time her life would have been completely different. She could marry who she wanted, live where she wanted, work doing what she wanted and make the choices that a free person gets to make. Unfortunately this was not the case, and just the simple fact that she was born into a class that made her “less” than a white person caused her to go through a life of immense suffering and hardship.
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