LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Under the floorboards.
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With a friend.
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In the stables.
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In a remote cabin.
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Detailed explanation-1: -After a month at the plantation, Linda runs away and ends up hiding in a crawlspace in Aunt Martha’s shed.
Detailed explanation-2: -In June 1835, Harriet Jacobs decided to escape. A white woman, who was a slaveholder herself, hid her at great personal risk in her house. After a short time, Jacobs had to hide in a swamp near the town, and at last she found refuge in a “tiny crawlspace” under the roof of her grandmother’s house.
Detailed explanation-3: -Escaping to the North with two small children would be impossible. Unwilling to submit to Dr. Flint’s abuse, but equally unwilling to abandon her family, she hides in the attic crawl space in the house of her grandmother, Aunt Martha.
Detailed explanation-4: -The “white benefactress” An upper-class white friend of Aunt Martha’s who hides Linda for a while. She is not named even with a pseudonym and is one of the few genuinely sympathetic slave owners in the book.