Flint, her anger and lust towards Flint are at their peak, but she is not well after the birth of her second child. He seemed to be completely obsessed with her. After recovering, Jacobs decides to run away and hides for seven years in a small shed that had been added to her grandmother's house a long time ago. She stayed there sleeping uncomfortably with rats and mice, and with no air or sunlight to get away from her life as a slave. Under certain circumstances she felt that “the slave should not be judged by the same standards as others” (Jacobs 234). Slaves endured far more cruelty in being raped, having their babies ripped from the womb and then sold into slavery, one child after another. They did all they could for themselves and the children and tried to live a happy life, but what life was happy with bitter slave masters and being a slave to the