How does Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl end?

The narrative closes with Linda legally purchased from trader Mr. Dodge after years of fugitive anxiety in New York and Boston circles. Mrs. Bruce’s second kindness helps arrange freedom; Linda stresses humiliation of buying herself yet celebrates autonomy and continued life with children. Flint dies unredeemed; Northern racism persists.

Ending is bittersweet abolitionist realism: escape without full justice. Linda addresses free Northern women directly, asking them to see complicity. Pair ending with northern-complicity concept and preface’s appeal so students read closure as political argument, not personal fairy tale.