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• Blog – How does Mr. Sands come to get possession of the children? Why does Linda trust him? Do you feel he’s trustworthy?

Mr. Sands gets possession of the children when Linda runs away by getting someone else to buy them off of Dr. Flint. Dr. Flint knows that the slaves are Mr. Sands children also so he would never sell them to him, and Mr. Sands knows this. So he pays another man to buy the slaves and then sell them to him and that he would pay him very well. Linda trusts him because he promised that he would free their kids, and she values family so much that she thinks that he must do too. I don't think that Dr. Sands is very trustworthy because he is a white man in the south. The south corrupts even the nicest people and once he gets a family he will want to provide them the best things he can. Also he might want to keep the kids with him, so they would have a nice life style..but never truly be free.