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Incidents in the Life Of A Slave Girl CHAPTER I         The conditions of this master-slave relationship are that the slave (Linda) is there to do work for her mistress, or master, which is now her sister's daughter. Linda is supposed to take care her new owner's five year old daughter, help plant things, take care of any animals and anything else she is told. As a slave, she should also do everything else she is …

…had died in infancy. She felt this because he had been born a slave. Born subject to disrespect, cruelty, abuse, and everything else that came with being a slavery. She had once prayed that he would died, and then when he became sick, she prayed that he would become well again. Linda felt that death was better than slavery and didn't want her son to have to go through the horror that she went through.