# Mrs. Flint — Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl character guide > Mrs. Flint in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent. **Role:** supporting **Also known as:** young Mrs. Flint, old Mrs. Flint, the Children Mrs. Flint **First appearance:** 0005-ii-the-new-master-and-mistress ## Snapshot The master's wife, whose jealousy curdles into cruelty, she punishes Linda for a predation she cannot prevent and refuses to see the enslaved as human. ## Who they are Mrs. Flint knows her husband's character intimately and could have shielded the young enslaved women in her household, but instead directs her suspicion and malevolence at Linda. She would rather sell Linda to a distant state than see her married nearby, and she sneers at enslaved people's desire for family ties as an absurdity. Her cold complicity shows how white women in slaveholding households could weaponize their own powerlessness, deepening Linda's isolation and making escape feel like the only sanity. ## Relationships ### [Grandmother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/grandmother) _rivalry_ Grandmother and Mrs. Flint are adversaries, with Mrs. Flint resentful of Grandmother's moral authority and independence. ### [Ellen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/ellen) _psychological_ Ellen is a child victim of Mrs. Flint's cruel and capricious treatment as her enslaved maid. ### [Mr. Sands](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/mr_sands) _social_ Mr. Sands and Mrs. Flint are acquaintances within the slaveholding society, with Mrs. Flint suspicious of his involvement with Linda. ### [Dr. Flint](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/dr_flint) _psychological_ Dr. and Mrs. Flint are married, but their relationship is marked by mutual suspicion, cruelty, and shared tyranny over enslaved people. ### [Linda Brent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/linda_brent) _psychological_ Mrs. Flint is Linda's obsessive and vindictive tormentor, driven by jealousy and cruelty. ### [Grandmother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/grandmother) _rivalry_ Grandmother and Mrs. Flint are adversaries, with Mrs. Flint resentful of Grandmother's moral authority and independence. ### [Linda Brent](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/linda_brent) _psychological_ Mrs. Flint is Linda's obsessive and vindictive tormentor, driven by jealousy and cruelty. ### [Grandmother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/grandmother) _rivalry_ Grandmother and Mrs. Flint are adversaries, with Mrs. Flint resentful of Grandmother's moral authority and independence. ### [Ellen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/ellen) _psychological_ Ellen is a child victim of Mrs. Flint's cruel and capricious treatment as her enslaved maid. ### [Ellen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/ellen) _psychological_ Ellen is a child victim of Mrs. Flint's cruel and capricious treatment as her enslaved maid. ### [Mr. Sands](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/mr_sands) _social_ Mr. Sands and Mrs. Flint are acquaintances within the slaveholding society, with Mrs. Flint suspicious of his involvement with Linda. ### [Dr. Flint](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/characters/dr_flint) _psychological_ Dr. and Mrs. Flint are married, but their relationship is marked by mutual suspicion, cruelty, and shared tyranny over enslaved people. ## In the story ### [The New Master and Mistress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/ii-the-new-master-and-mistress) A church member who watches whippings calmly and spitefully spoils food to prevent slaves from eating leftovers. ### [V: The Trials of Girlhood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/v-the-trials-of-girlhood) Mentioned as the mistress who, instead of protecting the enslaved girl, responds with jealousy and rage. ### [VI: The Jealous Mistress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/vi-the-jealous-mistress) Jealous mistress who watches Linda obsessively, accuses her of falsehoods, and torments her with nightly vigils. ### [VII: The Lover](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/vii-the-lover) Despises Linda and would rather see her sold far away than married locally, as she believes slaves have no right to family ties. ### [X: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/x-a-perilous-passage-in-the-slave-girl-s-life) Accuses Linda of involvement with her husband, contributing to the gossip and Linda's grandmother's knowledge. ### [Scenes at the Plantation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/xvi-scenes-at-the-plantation) Old Mrs. Flint visits the plantation, is closeted with her daughter-in-law, and urges that Linda's children be brought to the plantation to keep her there. ### [XVIII: Months of Peril](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/xviii-months-of-peril) Expresses cruelty and contempt, threatening to kill or spoil Ellen and vowing to sell Linda to a sugar plantation. ### [Still in Prison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/xxiii-still-in-prison) Visits grandmother only out of social pressure and Christian condescension, and cruelly expresses gladness that Benny was bitten by a dog. ### [XXVIII: Aunt Nancy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/incidents_in_the_life_of_a_slave_girl_se/chapters/xxviii-aunt-nancy) Nancy's mistress, who forced Nancy to sleep on the entry floor for years, causing multiple premature births, and later sentimentally wishes to bury Nancy in the family plot. ## 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