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- The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
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7 totalTHE - HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE, - A WEST INDIAN SLAVE. - RELATED BY HERSELF.
WITH A SUPPLEMENT BY THE EDITOR.
LONDON: - PUBLISHED BY F. WESTLEY AND A. H. DAVIS, - Stationers' Hall Court; - And by WAUGH & INNES, EDINBURGH. - 1831.
PREFACE.
THE HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE, A WEST INDIAN SLAVE. - (Related by herself.)
SUPPLEMENT - TO THE - HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE. - BY THE EDITOR.
NARRATIVE OF LOUIS ASA-ASA, - A CAPTURED AFRICAN.
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Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (132K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2006-02-24
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Mary Prince
d. 1833
Born into slavery in Bermuda, she became the first Black woman to publish an account of her life in bondage in Britain. Her powerful 1831 narrative helped expose the cruelty of slavery to a wide reading public.
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