Island Squalls of Indignation: The Rhetoric of Freedom in The History of Mary Prince

CEA Critic ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-315
Author(s):  
Dyanne Martin
Keyword(s):  
Mary Prince ◽  
History Of

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 742
Author(s):  
K. F. Kiple ◽  
Mary Prince ◽  
Moira Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
West Indian ◽  
Mary Prince ◽  
History Of

The Intimate Civic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindon Barrett
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Mary Prince ◽  
Private Rights ◽  
Antebellum Period ◽  
History Of

This chapter turns to the personal and in some cases domestic issues facing African Americans in the antebellum period. Turning from Douglass's classic 1845 Narrative to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)—which receives central consideration in this chapter—Barrett also considers Mary Prince's The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831), Ellen and William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860), and James C. Pennington's The Fugitive Blacksmith (1849) as antebellum representations of how African American bodies connect both public and private rights in the struggle for the abolition of slavery and thus are foundational to the subsequent civil rights movement.

from The History of Mary Prince

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
MARY PRINCE
Keyword(s):  
Mary Prince ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Trans-Colonial Collaboration and Slave Narrative: Mary Prince Revisited

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Michelle Gadpaille
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Slave Narrative ◽  
Upper Canada ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
Slave Emancipation ◽  
Mary Prince ◽  
Susanna Moodie ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Accounts

In 1831 in London, two formidable women met: Mary Prince, an ex-slave from Bermuda, who had crossed the Atlantic to a qualified freedom, and Susanna Strickland, an English writer. The narrative that emerged from this meeting was The History of Mary Prince, which played a role in the fight for slave emancipation in the British Empire. Prince disappeared once the battle was won, while Strickland emigrated to Upper Canada and, as Susanna Moodie, became an often quoted 19th century Canadian writer. Prince dictated, Strickland copied, and the whole was lightly edited by Thomas Pringle, the anti-slavery publisher at whose house the meeting took place.This is the standard account. In contesting this version, the paper aims to reinstate Moodie as co-creator of the collaborative Mary Prince text by considering multiple accounts of the meeting with Prince and to place the work in the context of Moodie’s pre- and post-emigration oeuvre on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Gravity of Mary Prince’s History

2020 ◽  
pp. 235-252
Author(s):  
Sue Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Slave Narrative ◽  
Salt Ponds ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Video Installation ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Mary Prince ◽  
History Of ◽  
Harsh Conditions

Sue Thomas uses this chapter to explore recent academic and creative projects about Mary Prince that reframe and add complexity to her story. Prince, enslaved in Bermuda, Grand Turk Island, Antigua and London, is best remembered for her influential slave narrative, The History of Mary Prince, published in 1831 by Thomas Pringle, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society. The text was a graphic exposé of the atrocities of slavery and brought about a libel case against Pringle by one of Prince’s former owners. Thomas looks at work about Prince including Margot Maddison-MacFadyen’s archival research used both in her PhD dissertation and her historical fiction novella for young readers; themes of other-mothering explored in the poetry of Joan Anim-Addo; a video installation by Joscelyn Gardner using a toy theatre set that reflects on performative aspects of history through Prince’s story; and work by Cynthia M. Kennedy and Michele Speitz which brings attention to the harsh conditions of slaves working in Caribbean salt ponds as described by Prince. Finally, Thomas explores Prince’s conversion to Moravianism and how her experience of slavery chafed against the religious philosophy of quietism.

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