Chapter 37: "A Visit to England"

In this chapter, Mrs. Bruce dies and Linda is devastated. Now, Mr. Bruce takes Linda to England with his daughter, Mary, so that she can see some relatives. Linda, Mr. Bruce, and Mary arrive in Liverpool. Linda feels great in England because for once in her life, she is not treated as if she was a slave and as if she was lower than them. She compares the English life to the American life and finds that there are a significant amount of differences. Although they were also treated unfairly, Linda believe that life as an English slave is better than that of an American's. Linda stays in England for a good ten months since she is genuinely happy there.

Chapter 36: "The Hairbreadth Escape"

In this following chapter, Linda finds out that Mr. Thorpe (Mrs. Hobbs' brother) contacted Dr. Flint and told him where Linda was hiding. Linda confesses to Mrs. Bruce about her being a fugitive slave, and Mrs. Bruce contacts her attorney. He helps Linda go to Boston with Ellen and William. When they arrive to their destination Ellen finally sees Benny, her brother, and the family lives there with Linda's friend. Linda teaches Ellen how to read and write since she never got the chance to learn. The corrupting power of slavery is shown in this chapter when Mr. Thorpe sends a letter to Dr. Flint telling him where Linda was. It wasn't fair since he had no right to tell Dr. Flint that she was in hiding and her whereabouts. She was living a seemingly happy life until that happened and she has to run away again. At least she ran away to Boston and her family can reunite with Benny again.

Chapter 35: "Prejudice Against Color"

In this chapter, Linda goes on a vacation with Mrs. Bruce to Albany since she is taking care of Mary. Since Albany is farther North, Linda experiences some extreme prejudice. A waiter refuses to serve her, she can't sit with Mary on her lap, and the servants won't even bring food for her to eat. Linda also travels to Brooklyn to see Ellen who warns her not to visit Mrs. Hobbs' because her brother is visiting from the South. After her encounter with many people who are prejudice against her even though they had the same skin color, she refused to be treated that way and stood up for her rights. In this case, it worked for her and she got her respect.

Chapter 34: "The Old Enemy Again"

In this chapter, Linda receives a letter from Dr. Flint who pretends to be his son, Mr. Flint. The letter consists of some kind words to make Linda go back to her "home". Linda knows of this trick and she does not respond to it. Linda finds out that Dr. Flint was going back to New York to look for her. After she hears this, she tells Mrs. Bruce that she has to leave for Boston to do some business. Linda leaves for Boston and stays there for a month. Her son, Benny, goes up North and is very excited about it since he is now a "free boy." When Dr. Flint cannot find Linda, he returns to Edenton and Linda goes back to New York. The corrupting power of slavery is shown in this chapter since Dr. Flint still has a form of control over her. She is still considered his slave and he is still her owner/master. Even though she is no longer with him physically, he still finds a way (letter) to get to her and try to make her go back to him.

Chapter Thirty-Three "A Home Found"

In this chapter, the readers find out that Linda is now a nurse maid for an English woman named Mrs. Bruce. Linda takes care of her baby, Mary, during this time. Linda's legs being to swell up because she keeps bringing Mary up and down the stairs. Mrs. Bruce takes care of Linda by calling in a physician to check up on her. Ellen is still with Mrs. Hobbs and to clothe her, Linda uses the money she earned to help pay for Ellen's clothes. Althoughthis was a pretty sad event, the ending starts to brighten up. Linda looks out the window and sees her brother, William, outside. The two brother and sister reunite in the end. The corrupting power of slavery is shown in this chapter when Linda cannot help Ellen. She is not able to visit Ellen without feeling like she is helpless since Linda feels as if she can't help Ellen.

Chapter Thirty-Two "The Meeting of Mother and Daughter"

In this chapter, Linda and Fanny finally arrive in New York. Linda sets out to find her daughter Ellen and much to her surprise, she runs into her on the street. She finds out that Ellen is now living Mr. Sands cousin, Mrs. Hobbs. Linda visits Ellen and finds out that she is not attending school, which meant that Mr. Sands broke his promise about educating Ellen. Linda also discovers that Mrs. Hobbs is planning on giving Ellen away to her oldest daughter so that she can be her maid. Linda believes that she does not have the right to control her daughter's future since she is not freed yet. She writes to Dr. Flint insisting that he frees her. He says that he will consider it if she goes back to Edenton.

Chapter Thirty-One "Incidents in Philadelphia"

In this chapter, Linda and Fanny finally arrive in Philadelphia. The boat captain introduces them to Reverend Jeremiah Durham. He lets Fanny and Linda stay five days with him and his wife before they take a train to New York. One of Mrs. Durhams friends who lives in Philadelphia offers to go to New York with her and Fanny. Upon arriving to the train, Linda gets her first taste of Northern prejudice. She is told to sit in the back of the train cart since blacks were not allowed to sit in the first-class section. The corrupting power of slavery is indirectly shown in this chapter. Linda experiences the prejudice experiences in the North. It is also like the South since they weren't being treated equally either. Although it was not slavery, it was a form of it indirectly.

Chapter Thirty "Northward Bound"

In this following chapter, Linda finally reaches the boat that Peter was talking about. Linda and Fanny head to Philadelphia.To her surprise however, the boat captain was southerner. He claims that he opposes slavery and he treats them kindly and respectfully but she still has a hard time trusting him. After ten days on the boat, they finally reach their destination. While watching the sun rise on the free soil, Linda and Fanny start crying tears of joy. They both have feelings of loneliness since they are leaving their friends and family. The corrupting power of slavery is shown in this chapter since Linda and Fanny are unable to trust the boat captain. They have gone through most of their lives not being able to trust anyone since they are afraid that they might turn them in for a reward. It is pretty sad since they won't be able to trust anyone that easily.

Twenty-Seven to Twenty-Nine

"New Destination for Children: 27"
In this chapter, Mrs. Flint threatens to tell Mrs. Sands that Mr. Sands is the father of Linda' children. However, Mr. Sands already tells his wife that he fathered them indirectly. Mrs. Sands wants to take care of Benny and give Ellen to her sister instead. Linda does not want them to be enslaved so she tells her grandmother to speak to Mr. Sands to free them. He says they are free but he does not want them in Edenton since Dr. Flint may find them and say that he owns them. Ellen is sent to Brooklyn and Benny is sent to the North to live with Uncle Philip. Dr. Flint is enraged and Mrs. Flint tells her daughter to steal Linda's children back.

"Aunt Nancy: 28"
In this chapter, we find out that Aunt Nancy is a slave who was in Dr. Flint's family. While Aunt Nancy was pregnant, she had to take care of Mrs. Flint also. She has a miscarriage after miscarriage over the time of six years. Nancy takes care of Linda since she was in hiding and on her sixth year of hiding, Nancy dies. Since Linda still cannot be seen, she watches the funeral from her shed . This is a very sad chapter since someone close to Linda passed away.

"Preparation for Escape: 29"
In this chapter, the readers find out that Linda has been hiding in her shed for seven years. Since the shed is such a tiny space, she cannot walk right. Fanny runs away from the auction-block and Linda finds out. Fanny is hiding in Aggie's hut which is owned by Linda's grandmother. Linda finds out from Peter that there is a boat that Linda can run away to.However, her grandmother tells her not to go since someone was brutally murdered there. Fanny goes instead. Her grandmother take Linda into a storeroom so that she can stretch her legs and that is when a black maid, Jenny, walks in. Linda believes that she saw her so she is afraid. Linda talks to Peter about running away. Before she does, she finally sees her son, Benny, then leaves.

Chapter Twenty-Four to Twenty-Six

"The Candidate for Congress" 24
In this chapter Mr. Sands takes an attempt to for congress on Whig Party ticket while Dr. Flint runs for the opposing team. Mr. Sands wins the election afterwards and he prepares to depart for Washington. Linda wants to keep her children's freedom secure before he departs so she arranges a meeting with Mr. Sands. For the first time in two years she crawls out of her den and catches his attention while getting on the boat. She asks him to arrange for her children's emancipation before he goes, and he tells her it will be done. While on the way back to her den, she is weak and can barely walk. She had to wait for her uncle Phillips to walk her back.

"Competition in Cunning" 25
In this chapter,  Dr. Flint continues his search for Linda in New York and has already taken three trips. He has confirmed Linda escaping towards the free states. Linda decides to play along and support his confirmation by writing two letters; one to Dr. Flint and one to her grandmother. She had both sent to New York and back from there towards the locations in order to make it more believable. Her letters were successfully sent and her plan worked. Dr. Flint was now convinced that she was living in Boston. He takes the letter that was supposed to be sent to her grandmother and rewrites it attempting to get her family to hunt her down from New York.

"Important Era in My Brother's life" 26
William joins Mr. Sands journey towards Washington as his assistant. William has shown to him such hard work that he was even offered a friendship and becoming a co-worker. He really doesn't treat him as a slave. William still feels and acts as a slave but doesn't plan on returning south. Linda and her grandmother feel sad that he has left and that he is no longer a part of their lives but they manage to regain their happiness since soon they will regroup back in The North. Linda and her brother keep in touch through letters while she plans her escape years later.

Chapter Twenty-One to Twenty-Three

In this chapter, Linda hides in her grandmother's shed. The shed is a seven feet by nine feet and three inch high attic and  on top of her grandmother's house. Linda has to stay there for seven years since Dr. Flint and other people cannot find her. However, it isn't clean at all. There are mice and rats running across her while she's sleeping. She has bites and has to restrain from crying or screaming since they will find her. Uncle Philip made a trap door for her so that she can get food sent up to her. Also, there is a small opening that Linda can use so that she can see her children, her grandmother, and Dr. Flint. While she is in the attic, Dr. Flint goes to New York to search for her.

"Christmas Festivities: Twenty-Two"
In this chapter, the readers find out that Linda is sewing clothes for her children while she is still in hiding. They believe that she is still gone but is sending them resents for Christmas. She also tell us about the festivities of Christmas for the Johnkannuas dancers. She talks about her grandmother's friends who tell people that Linda is nowhere near her grandmother's house.She isn't able to watch her children open their Christmas presents. Dr. Flint tells them that he will buy them presents if they knew where she was. However, Benny tells him that he will never tell him where she is because he doesn't know, and he stands up for her.

"In Prison: Twenty-Three"
Many months pass and Linda is still living in her grandmother's shed. During the winter, she freezes and during the spring she is soaking wet from the rain. Linda almost dies since she was almost frozen and she had a serious illness. Her brother William gets his hands on some medicine and gives it to her so that she is safe.Also, Linda sees her son getting bitten by a dog and bleeding. She cannot do anything about it which makes her depressed. However, it takes him some time to walk again. Mrs. Flint
 wishes death upon Benny. We find out that Linda's grandmother is also very sick but she still recovers.

Chapter Twenty "New Perils"

In this chapter, Dr. Flint tries to break Linda by capturing her Uncle Philip and throwing him into jail. However, his tactic does not work since he doesn't know where she is.Since Linda believed that staying with Betty was not going to work out anymore since Dr. Flint may eventually find her. So she dresses up as a sailor and leaves Betty's house. A gentleman named Peter helps Linda by helping her find her way to Snaky Swamp. Linda stays there for the night but tries very hard to fight for her life since hundreds of snakes lie there. After that night, Linda finds out that a new place to hide is in her grandmother's house. While walking there, she brushes her arm against Mr. Sands and he does not even recognize her. The corrupting power of slavery is shown in this chapter since she has no way to be safe in Betty's house. She has to travel to different places in order to be safe. Finally, she ended up concealed somewhere in grandmother's house. A place that we will know very well in the next chapter.

Chapter Nineteen "The Children Sold"

In this chapter, Dr. Flint comes back to Edenton with no sign of Linda. Mr. Sands, the father of the children, buys William, Benny, and Ellen. Dr. Flint agrees to this because he does not know who is really buying them.After some time, Dr. Flint finds out that he sold them to Mr. Sands. He goes to Aunt Martha's house and vows to never let Linda go and to never set her free. The corrupting power of slavery is shown in this chapter when Dr. Flint vows to never set Linda free just because he wanted revenge. He did not care about the money, all he cared about was getting her back for running away and refusing to sleep with him.

Chapter Eighteen "Months of Peril"

In this chapter, Linda is running away from the white men who are searching for her. When she believed that she was almost going to get caught, she hid in thick bushes and got bitten by an unknown reptile. Little did she know, it was poisonous. Linda leaves Sally's house so that she can meet up with Betty. Betty helps Linda since she works for a white woman who will take Linda in. Betty's mistress hides Linda under the floorboard so that Dr. Flint and Mr. Flint won't find her. Dr. Flint tries every possible move to get Linda to come out of her hiding spot. However, Dr. Flint believes that Linda is in New York so he borrows money from several people to buy a ticket to New York to search for Linda. The corrupting power of slavery is shown in this chapter when Dr. Flint throws Linda's family into jail so that he can weasel some information out of them.

Chapter Seventeen "The Flight"

In this chapter Linda flees the plantation and goes back to Edenton to take care of her children again. During the middle of the night, Linda escapes and informs her friend Sally about it. After she informed her, Linda goes to a friend's house and hides there. When Mr. Flint finds out that she has escaped, he goes to Aunt Martha's house to look for her. With no luck, he leaves furiously. When Dr. Flint finds out about Linda, he places a "Runaway Slave" ad. It was a $300 dollar reward for anyone who captured her. The corrupting power of slavery is shown when Mr. Flint goes to her grandmother's house threatening her to tell him where Linda was. If he found out any slaves were behind Linda's escape, he would give them 500 lashes.