Incidents Part 3

As I keep on reading into the book I realize that Jacobs' is a very selfish person.  What I mean by this, is that she is running up north while Dr.Flint tries to throw her children in jail in order to get her to come back.  Jacobs, "was about to risk everything on the throw of a die" ( Jacobs 97) with the possibility that she might have her children face the consequences for her actions.  This is the complete opposite of Margaret Gardener.  Margaret Gardner did whatever she had to do in order to have her children not face the hardships of slavery.  Jacobs' says that "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own"(32) with is true because she has to deal with the lives of her children.