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.