The North

The North is not what Linda had hoped for. Even though there were better conditions for slaves in the North, it was still disappointing. Linda was not free, but she felt that if she made it to the North, she would feel a sense of freedom.
An event that particularly sticks out is when she was going to ride the train. Mr. Durham went to go get tickets, but told Linda that he couldn’t get her seats to sit in first-class. Linda offered more money, because she thought that she had not given him enough. Mr Durham replied that colored people are not allowed to be in the first-class section of the train, and she would have to ride in the filthy cars behind all of the white people. The ticket that Linda had paid for was the ticket that allowed her to ride in the foul boxcar. This was Linda’s first disappointment. In the south, black people could ride in these unpleasant boxcars, but they didn’t have to pay for it. Even though Linda had the money to ride in the first-class seats, she was not allowed to. But instead of just coming out and saying it, everything is sugarcoated. The “Free States” seemed to have an implied prejudice.