America, England the North and the South

As we’ve seen throughout this book and the history of the United states, the Southern states were the slave states and the northern states were the supposed free states. Linda herself upon arriving in the Northern states expresses her joy of finally being on free soil, but later she comments upon how she no longer calls it free soil and the many predjudices that the African Americans suffer from in the North. We also see that when she goes to England, people there are not predjudice against others based upon the color of their skin.
Its interesting how two countries from the same origin separated only by the atlantic can be so different, and how the Northern and the Southern states really aren’t all that different though many Americans believed them to be. Both the North and the South were full of people ignorant to the feelings of others, just because they were slightly different, but looking at England and other parts of Europe that wasn’t the case. Once slavery was decided to be inhumane it was quickly delt with and made illeagal. Whereas the US just kept pushing the subject under the rug not wanting to cause a problem within the country.