n replied, "Are you really my mother?" Ellen couldnt even remember what her own mother looked like. She spent that night with her and they wept on each other and spoke of the things that had happened over the years. Ellen departed the following morning. Finally Linda received work that there was a safe way to get to the North and she left, after spending almost seven years in that tiny space. Linda finally made it to North, safely and prudently, no one suspected a thing. Dr. Flint assumed shed lived in the North for years, hed even gone in search of her several times. Although it wasnt everything she though it would be, she was for the most part free. The people werent as nice as she thought they would be, many of them were still extremely prejudice. On her train ride to New York she had to pay to ride in a back car full of the smells of tobacco and whiskey. Alarmingly, when she got there her Ellen had not been living very well.She worn thin clothes and sometimes no shoes. She hadnt even been sent to school even though there were public schools she could to for free. Ellen was extremely unhappy. She had actually been given to his niece as a handmaid! Although Linda was extremely angry she said nothing for fear of the selling her daughter. She found a job being a nurse to nice family by the name of Bruce and eventually got her daughter back and they later sent her son to be with her also. Dr. Flint continued to come to the North and search for her, but she had many friends who concealed her. Not but a few years after shed stayed in the North did they pass the Fugitive Slave Law enacted in September 1850 it made it easy to legally seize and enslave and black man or woman at large. All they had to do was get the person, go before the commissioner, swear to the ownership of him or her and get a certificate of arrest. The commissioner received ten dollars for giving the certificate and five for denying it. The black man or woman accused of...
