Reaction to the Image of Slavery

In the first few chapters of Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl I noticed that Linda Brent wasn't even aware that she was a slave. It seemed as if she thought this was all that ever happened in life and felt as she was loved and wasn't mistreated in any way. It wasn't until she was six years old when she finally realized that she was a slave and what a slave was. When she knew she was a slave she didn't even really care because her mistress treated her like a mother and didn't feel like a slave. When I first think of slavery i think about how slaves used to run away from getting beat and severally mistreated. This is very powerful because it shows how some slaves were treated almost like family even though they were considered as slaves. Jacobs describes how slavery was but also talks about Linda Brent's life. After Linda Brent's mistress died she was sold to a different slave owner where she realized how rough and horrifying slavery is. Linda is forced and yelled to do things with her new slave owner and almost cant believe it is happening. I found it very interesting how Jacobs describes Linda's life while also describing slavery during the time.