Incidents Blog Post 3(pg.87- pg.107)

    In this section of Incidents Jacob's love for her children really shines through. Jacobs takes the risk of sneaking out at night to vistit her children who are staying with her grandmother. Jacobs describes "I went to look at my children and thank god for their happy sleep. The tears fell as I leaned over them"(Jacobs, 89). Jacob's later takes a much more life-theatening risk by running away. She does this in hopes that Dr. Flint will see her children are useless without her and decide to sell them. Making it possible for the father of the children to buy them. Jacobs runs away to a friends house and is later transfered to stay with a friends mistresses who is very kind hearted and willing to help her out. She is able to recieve small bits of information about the whereabouts of her children and discovers Dr. Flint locked them in jail. Hearing this information the love for her children creates her agonizing pain. Jacobs reveals "When I heard that my little ones were in a loathsome jail, my first impulse was to go to them. I was encountering dangers for the sake of freeing them, and must I be the cause of their death? The thought was agonizing"(103-104). By running away not only is Jacob's in a life threatening situation, but her childern are too. This shows that slaves have no control over their lives. Jacob's is not able to free her children without Dr. Flint selling them first. Her whole plan is based off another persons actions. She can only hope her plan works out in the end.