Linda finally gets her freedom because her “owners” the Dodges are in need of money and her great friend and employer decides to buy her freedom for her. Linda tells her that she does not want her freedom bought. That was just being like sold to a new owner. It was still slavery even if the master was a kind woman and friend. Mrs. Bruce decides to buy her anyway because she wants Linda to be a free woman, and do whatever she wants without having to look over her shoulder all of the time and wonder if any of the people around her were Mr. Dodge getting ready to capture her or her children.
Linda isn’t sure that she wants her freedom bought, but she says that after it is done she feels a huge weight being lifted off her shoulders. She now doesn’t have that constant worry of someone coming to capture her or her children. She was free. Mrs. Bruce says to her that she had no intentions of actually owning her; she wanted Linda to be truly free. For this, Linda is the most grateful she has ever been and she says that the word ‘friend’ is overused, but when she uses it to speak about Mrs. Bruce, it is sacred.
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