in addition to these, jinnicky has a large number of slaves. this was apparently intended to be a joke on thompson's part. thompson was wont to derive material from the arabian nights, in which jinns are usually slaves, such as in aladdin's lamp, so she played a simple turnaround and made the jinn the slaveholder. all of the slaves that are described are explicitly black people. the best known of the slaves is ginger, whose service to a magic dinner bell is an important literary device.