The understanding of why the story was told from Mary’s point of view (first person) was very important and clear now reading through these pages I seen that. The moment that was significant for me was when Mary was trying to consistently buy her freedom from her master which was now at this moment Mr. Wood. When she first went to them I thought she was actually finally going to get a break because she talked about how good Mr. & Mrs. Wood treated her. There was a sign of relief for me because I wanted that so bad for her at this point. But, then she started talking about how they flogged, swore, etc. at her. She got married and the master & mistress got really upset about it. They would not let her buy her freedom or let anyone else buy her. During that time period slaves could purchase there freedom even though slaves really had no freedom at all. Their masters still kept them as peasants and continued to treat them horrible because they knew they had no power or land.