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A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life
When Dr. Flint proposes an isolated house that would put Jacobs entirely in his power, she makes a choice involving an unmarried white neighbor, Mr. Sands, that she asks her readers to judge with more understanding than they would apply to a free woman.
Dr. Flint's plan to isolate herJacobs's decision involving Mr. SandsA direct appeal to the reader's judgmentHer grandmother's anger and eventual forgiveness