Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Why does Linda turn down a marriage proposal to a free black man whom she was very much in love with from the book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?

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Linda turned down the proposal because she was afraid of the repercussions of such an arrangement. She knew Dr. Flint would not allow it and that her children would be born into slavery.

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl