William

In the book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl we find out about William running away to be in the free states. William decides to run away because he is sick of and cant stand being a slave anymore. One thing Mr. Sands always did was treat him like a son and didn't disrespect him at all. William may not have been treated like a slave, but he was and always would have been know as being a slave. In the book William does talk about how some slave masters have treated their slaves kindly, but then eventually have become traders and total turned on them. William didn't even want the chance of this happening to him and he didn't like being known as a slave anyway so he ran away to the free states. I believe that his actions were more than justified. Nobody should ever even have to be a slave in their life and if he didn't feel safe being with Mr. Sands and didn't like being a slave then he definitely had the right to run away to the free states.