ITLOASG 2

In chapters 4-8 Jacobs talks about how love is perceived through the eyes of a slave. Slaves believe that there is no point in love because their loved one could be sold off any moment and they would have no right to argue. Linda wants to sell herself to her lover, who is a free black man, so that he could free her. When she proposes her master to request to be with him, he slaps her and tells her that she is living a better life with him. He sees that it is an advantage to keep her as the slave to his daughter. Dr. Flint offers her one of his slaves to marry, but she finds her deprived emotions feeble. She was scared to love anybody because her love is isn’t acquirable.