Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl characters

Linda Brent

Linda is the character from whom we can actually receive the story. She is a black woman who suffers from total iniquity in society. The society does not call black people as normal humans and treats them as something unnecessary. The reader meets Linda as a strong woman who is struggling from...

Dr. Flint 

A character no one would sympathize with. We can discover what person he is from his actions that are vividly described by Linda. Dr. Flint is a white man who is rich enough to have black servants as his property. If to generalize his portrait, he is a rude and cruel owner everybody is afraid of...

Aunt Martha 

A prominent character in the novel and helps to uncover its different sides. Aunt Martha is Linda’s grandmother and has a meaningful impact on her. She was a slave from her early years and seems to get used of it. The woman is respected by the surrounding people even by those with white skin...

Mr. Sands 

Mr. Sands is one the white people that surround Linda. He is the young son of the local lawyer and has no family yet. Mr. Sands is the one who had a sexual relationship with Linda. Black women were not protected from such cases as they were considered as something lower than just people. Remember...

Benny 

Benny is one of those characters that do not influence the novel development but still have their position and role in this process. Benny is a son of Linda and Dr. Sands, the young white man. After his father has bought him the freedom, he lives with his grandmother. In the first years of his life...

Ellen 

Ellen is from the list of those minor characters in the novel, but her presence is extremely important. She is a daughter of Linda and a white man Mr. Sands, the young son of the lawyer. Being born in slavery, Ellen has an uncertain fate from the beginning of her life. However, Mr. Sands was...

Phillip

Philip does not belong to the list of prominent characters, but his presence in the novel has its specifics. He is a son to Aunt Martha who remains the freedom at the end of her life and was working to help her children. Linda, the main character of the story is a niece to Philip and usually...