Mary Prince (1) (1788–1833)
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- 1788-10-01
- Todestag
- 1833
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- female
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- Bermuda
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- Devonshire Parish, Bermuda
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- Antigua
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Read for a graduate seminar on Human Rights - while this account of slavery is harrowing, I think it falls short in being mediated through the words of a white woman and presented as a means of propaganda for the mostly-white Anti Slavery Society. Thus what I want more of is Mary Prince's own voice and story and less of the white publisher's call to action- no matter how righteous the cause.
Before the end of the civil war, over one hundred former slaves had written moving stories of their captivity and by 1944, when George washington Carver published his autobiography, over six thousand ex-slaves ahd written what caalled slave narratives. No group of slaves anywhere, in any other ear, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage and servitude.
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Mary Prince was born as a slave in Bermuda in 1788. She was taken from the house where her mother and siblings lived when she was twelve and sold to another master. Mary was bought and sold several times and also lived in Turks and Caicos and Antigua before being taken to England. She experienced great hardship but was able to express this poignantly, becoming the first black woman whose story was published in Britain. Her memoirs were published in London in 1831 at a time when slavery and abolitionism were hotly debated. They went through three publishings in the first year and her powerful story with its very human face, had a great impact on the debate and was instrumental in the battle to abolish slavery. I found this to be a short but impacting read.… (mehr)