From the title we can see how Jacobson made her story something more than itself. The use of the phrase "slave" and "one" instead of "the" makes it possible to create an archetype for all slave girls. Furthermore, the word "girl" indicates that the narrative will not be the usual slave narrative, which was already an established genre. The setting of the Incidents narrative is vaguely described but we get the idea that Linda's family exists in a state where, even though they are enslaved, they have a kind of freedom. The setting therefore tries to remind us that there are many different types of slavery. However, upon arriving in England, Linda dispels the widely held idea that American slaves were better off than the poor of other countries. He says: “I repeat that the most ignorant and most destitute of these farmers was a thousand times better off than the most spoiled American slave” (37) In a sense we can say that Linda was a spoiled slave – she was able to live with her family and was never raped or whipped (which didn't happen to Douglass...