happening. Before, when she lived with Margaret
Horniblow, she was taken care of. Now all she had was her grandmother. By the time she had spent a
couple of years with the Norcom's (Flint's) several people that were close to her had died. At the time of
these death's she was obviously very mournful. She even rebelled against God, who had taken her bother
parents as well as her loving mistress. However as time went on and the more she experienced the evils
of bondage her view of death began to change. This first change came about when her grandmother
suggested of her parent's fate by saying, "Who knows the ways of God? Perhaps they have been kindly
taken from the evil days to come."(Jacobs p. 10) She was further subjected to this kind of outlook on
death, when she witnessed a dying slave girl giving birth to a white baby, beg for the Lord to come and
take her. The belief that death brought peace and freedom seemed to be a common sentiment among
slaves who lived such an unrewarding and oppresses life. Many of them
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