The question: how does Jacobs walk a tightrope between being an individual and being a representative of a group? What’s the difference between being one person and representing many people, and how might this have affected how Jacobs chose to tell her story? As you consider this question, think about how Jacobs’s structures her narrative, her chapters’ subject matters, her careful choice of words and descriptions, etc.
You can talk about the title page if you like, but you must also provide at least two specific examples from Incidents in the Life to illustrate your ideas.
With her memoir, Harriet Jacobs used the same phrase, “Written By Herself,” but she is never named in the title. Instead the title is, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Here is a link to her original title page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_in_the_Life_of_a_Slave_Girl – /media/File:IncidentsInTheLifeOfASlaveGirl.jpg