The History Of Mary Prince

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486146936
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Mary Prince written by Mary Prince and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465581731
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The history of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave written by Mary Prince and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1831 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sojourner Truth
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486136108
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Narratives of Slavery written by Sojourner Truth and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straightforward, yet often poetic, accounts of the battle for freedom, these memoirs by three courageous black women vividly chronicle their struggles in the bonds of slavery, their rebellion against injustice, and their determination to attain equality.

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469633299
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave written by Mary Prince and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the West Indies to an English reading public that was largely unaware of its atrocities. Prince was born in Bermuda to an enslaved family. She spent her early life in harsh conditions and was eventually sold to John Adams Wood of Antigua, working as his domestic servant. She joined the Moravian Church, where she learned to read, and married Daniel James, a former slave who had bought his freedom. In 1828 she traveled to England with the Woods family and after protracted efforts by abolitionists was able to leave their control. Encouraged by her new employer, Thomas Pringle, who also served as her editor, Prince wrote and published her book in 1831 to wide acclaim. While eighteenth-century slave narratives largely focused on Christian spiritual journeys and religious redemption, Prince was part of a growing trend of abolitionist writers focused on the injustice of slavery. Her work stands alongside better-known narratives such as A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Adding to its importance, few early women's slave narratives exist. A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.

Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195052626
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Women's Slave Narratives written by William L. Andrews and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six narrations by slave women about their lives during and after their years in bondage, honoring the nobility and strength of African-American women of that era.

Author : William Earle
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551116693
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Obi written by William Earle and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Three-Fingered Jack,” the protagonist of this 1800 novel, is based on the escaped slave and Jamaican folk hero Jack Mansong, who was believed to have gained his strength from the Afro-Caribbean religion of obeah, or “obi.” His story, told in an inventive mix of styles, is a rousing and sympathetic account of an individual’s attempt to combat slavery while defending family honour. Historically significant for its portrayal of a slave rebellion and of the practice of obeah, Obi is also a fast-paced and lively novel, blending religion, politics, and romance. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a selection of contemporary documents, including historical and literary treatments of obeah and accounts of an eighteenth-century slave rebellion.

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Mary Prince written by Mary Prince and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Mary Prince caused a stir as the first account published in Great Britain of a black woman's life at a time when anti-slavery agitation was growing. Her first person account touched many people and had an immediate effect on public opinion regarding the anti-slavery movement. When the book was published, slavery was no longer recognised as legal in Britain, but Parliament had not yet abolished it in its colonies like Bermuda and the British Caribbean. The book also generated a lot of controversy in its days and was seen as a misleading propaganda by the West Indian supporters of slavery. Excerpt: "I was born at Brackish-Pond, in Bermuda, on a farm belonging to Mr. Charles Myners. My mother was a household slave; and my father, whose name was Prince, was a sawyer belonging to Mr. Trimmingham, a ship-builder at Crow-Lane. When I was an infant, old Mr. Myners died, and there was a division of the slaves and other property among the family. I was bought along with my mother by old Captain Darrel, and given to his grandchild, little Miss Betsey Williams." Mary Prince (1788–1833) was born in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, to an enslaved family of African descent who travelled to London with her master from Antigua where she narrated her life story to Thomas Pringle, the founder of Anti-Slavery society in Britain.

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492287278
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Mary Prince written by Mary Prince and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in England in 1831, "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Narrative" is one of the most important narratives of the slave experience in the Americas. This book describes in detail the reality of the slave experience: the dehumanization of Black people, the moral degradation of their masters, and the ever-present violence. Prince's story is also an important early defense of the humanity of people of African descent. She notes that slave masters "think that black people are like cattle, without natural affection. But my heart tells me it is far otherwise." Prince tells of her labor in the salt ponds of Turk's Island, her conflict with a hired mulatto woman, her spiritual life in the Moravian Church, and many other topics. Ultimately, she celebrates the desire and hope for freedom: "All slaves want to be free." After enduring years of cruelty and abuse at the hands of several families who successively owned her in Bermuda and the West Indies, Mary Prince traveled to London in 1828, in the service of the Woods family. There she was granted her freedom in accordance with English law. But England's anti-slavery ruling did not extend to Antigua, and, in order to remain free, Prince had to abandon hopes of rejoining her husband, who had been left behind.

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781494387266
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Mary Prince written by Mary Prince and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Prince was born into slavery in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. While she was later living in London, her autobiography, The History of Mary Prince, was the first account of the life of a black woman to be published in the United Kingdom. This edition of "The History of Mary Prince" is Volume 4 of the Black History Series. It is printed on high quality paper with a durable cover.

Author : Mary PRINCE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor (T. Pringle). To which is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African written by Mary PRINCE and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: