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The History of Mary Prince
The History of Mary Prince | Mary Prince
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'I have been a slave - I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what a slave knows ...' Mary Prince recalls that in the slave market in Bermuda, where she was put up for sale, the buyers' talk 'fell like cayenne pepper into the fresh wounds of our hearts'. During her life as a slave she was taken from Bermuda to Turks Island and Antigua, eventually arriving in London where, in 1828, she reported the cruelty of her master and mistress to the Anti-Slavery Society. The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first life of a black woman to be published in Britain. This extraordinary testament of ill-treatment and survival was a protest and a rallying-cry for emancipation that provoked two libel actions and ran into three editions in the year of its publication. This edition includes an introduction which discusses The History within the context of black writing, explanatory notes, a chronology, and supplementary material on enslavement and the case of Mary Prince.
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MsLeah8417
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The History of Mary Prince | Mary Prince

Expanding my Penguin Classics collection

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rockpools
rockpools
The History of Mary Prince | Mary Prince
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A short hard-hitting book, this was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain in 1831. Mary Prince tells of being born into slavery in Bermuda, horrific brutality as she's sold on to Antigua, working the Salt pans on Turks Island and eventually coming to England. Although slavery has been abolished in Britain, she would remain a slave were she to return to her husband in Antigua. The book was subject to libel cases 👇

rockpools & includes an account from her editor, a member of the Anti-Slavery Society; correspondence from the man who refuses to sell her her freedom, plus references even tho "Mary's character, important tho its exculpation be to her, is not really the chief practical interest in this case" 6y
rockpools I read this for #ReadHarder as a book banned or challenged in my country (UK) after @Leniverse pointed me in the direction of this list: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/29/write-no-more-10-books-that-were-b... 6y
Leniverse That was quick! 6y
rockpools @Leniverse It's short and interesting! 6y
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mrsmarch
mrsmarch
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Quite a #bookhaul in today's mail...a mix of #GBBO "Comfort" and some serious politics...I also have "On Tyranny" in from the library.

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PlannerGirlBookClub
PlannerGirlBookClub
The History of Mary Prince | Mary Prince
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For a #LitsyMadeMeDoIt entry - I downloaded the app Pigeonhole which gives you a ~15 minute section of a book to read every day. First book that I read was the true account of Mary, a West-Indies slave who makes it to Britain and gains her freedom after a lifetime of surviving atrocities. I wonder how much she tamed down her stories to make the account "fit to publish" in 1831.

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