Incidents ch 5-8

Incidents 5-8

To a slave love is nothing. And I don’t mean that they don’t think about love or wouldn’t want to love. I mean that it isn’t an option for them. Pieces of property can’t love. All they do is work for their masters. This was how it was for most slaves. However, some slave masters were a bit lenient such as Mr. Flint. This was how it was for Jacobs, except with special circumstances. She loved someone who wasn’t one of her mistress’s slaves. Eventually Mr. Flint found out about it, and forbade her from seeing him. If she defied him, he would shoot her lover down. He did say, though, that she could love someone as long as it was one of Mr. Flint’s slaves. So, basically, the master chose who a slave was allowed to love and/or marry.