The Inevitable Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

In the story, incidents in the life of a slave girl, a story is told of a girl who is born into slavery but does not realize it until she is six years old when her mother passes on. Her parents had tried the much they could to buy back their freedom, but their efforts had been futile. It is a first narrative in which the girl, Linda explains that even after learning that she was a slave, during her tender years, she enjoyed all the comforts enjoyed by any white child. Things were smooth sailing for her because her mistress had a good relation with her mother hence made sure that she enjoyed all the privileges that should be experienced by a child. She says that “When she (the mistress) thought I was tired, she would send me out to run and jump; …show more content…
Linda is faced with the responsibility of taking care of her young uncle, Benjamin. They are both slaves and Linda seems to incorporate the things she was taught about God in her daily undertaking and hence is fairing far much better than her uncle. However, Benjamin appears to be on the wrong side of the law with his master most of the time and, therefore, goes to Linda for consolation and counsel whenever he does something wrong is supposed to face the whip (Burt 49). Since she at times doubts the works of God and why things ought to be the way they are, she comforts her uncle with a great faith in God. On the other hand, Mary believes that God is going to reunite her with her family. She believes that everything that has happened to her is for the sake of her family. “Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me; and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other” (Rowlandson 52). During the whole journey, when she is tossed from one master to another, she believes that God has a good plan for her life and that of the family. She goes on to say that reliance and dependence should be placed on God. She narrates how over the months she has learned how to trust that there is a God who is greater than her problems and troubles. She even quotes the Bible where Moses told the Israelites to stand still and see the salvation of …show more content…
Both stories give a narration of the life that the two main characters go through in the lands of slavery. They explain the tribulations and hardships that they encounter in the hands of their masters. Both stories act as a wake-up call to those whites who still treat blacks as nobodies and the victimization they make them pass through. Linda says that her narration that she says all that not to awaken pity and sympathy among readers but to make the