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implications of life in bondage. As an intermediary
between the enslaved of the West Indies and the
British public, Prince becomes too the intermediary
between processes of modern historical memory and
its relationship to the past. By preserving and sharing
her story through print, Prince provides the modern
discourse of slavery with textual evidence of the contours
of its violence in practice. The History asks readers to
understand its narrator and to appreciate the nuances in
her relationships to others; by providing the narrative as
a testament to the strength of cooperation with others
in combatting oppression, Prince is then in all senses a
worthy representative of those fighting for social justice.
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Ferguson, Moira. Introduction. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian
Slave: Related by Herself. Mary Prince. Ed. Moira Ferguson. University of
Michigan Press, 1993.
Hager, Christopher. Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing.
Harvard University Press, 2013.
Paquet, Sandra Pouchet. Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and
Self-representation. University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Patterson, Orlando. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study.
Harvard University Press, 1982.
Prince, Mary. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave: Related by
Herself. Ed. Moira Ferguson. University of Michigan Press, 1993.
Thomas, Sue. “New Information On Mary Prince In London.” Notes And
Queries, vol. 59, no. 1, 2011, pp. 82-85.
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