Linda is the name used to narrate Harriet Jacobs’s life story. Linda used to have a happy life with her parents and then was sent to live with her mother’s mistress when her mother died. Her mistress thought her how to read and treated her very well, but when she died Linda was sent to Dr. Flint’s house. Dr. Flint eventually tried to force Linda to have a sexual relationship with him but instead had an affair with Mr. Sanders in hopes it would disgust Dr. Flint and he would send her away to Mr. Sanders house. Instead, Dr. Flint sent her to a plantation to be a field hand and her children were soon to be sent to do the same. Linda eventually tricks Dr. Flint that she escaped North by hiding in her grandmother’s attic for seven years, however,