The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780472082469 (0472082469)
Publish date: August 1st 1993
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
19th Century,
Biography Memoir,
Female Authors
Mary Prince was born a slave in Bermuda. She publishes the first narrative in Britain of the life of a black woman. Mary cannot understand why the color of her skin strips her from living a respectable life. She refuses to accept being treated like an animal because of that. Mary describes the phy...
Oh the horrors of slavery!—How the thought of it pains my heart! But the truth ought to be told of it; and what my eyes have seen I think it is my duty to relate; for few people in England know what slavery is. I have been a slave—I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what a slave knows; and I ...
Bermuda [British overseas territory].The Penguin Classics edition includes multiple related texts and explanations, making it easier to put Mary Price's narrative of her slavery in the West Indies and surrounding islands into context. Importantly, this narrative is mediated by the transcriber/editor...
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