Project Gutenberg 2006-02-24 Public domain in the USA. 1537 Prince, Mary 1833 The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Reading ease score: 74.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave" by Mary Prince is a historical account written in the early 19th century. This narrative, one of the first autobiographies by a Black woman in the British empire, details Prince's harrowing experiences as a slave in the Caribbean. It addresses themes of the brutal realities of slavery, the bonds of family, and the quest for freedom, centering around Prince's own traumatic life story. The opening of the narrative begins with Mary Prince recounting her early life in Bermuda, where she was born into slavery. She describes her initial happiness as a young girl cared for by a kind mistress, contrasted sharply with the harsh realities that would soon follow her separation from family and the progression of abuse she faced from various slave owners. As she is passed from one master to another, Prince's stories evoke intense emotions as they highlight the systemic cruelty of slavery—enduring brutal whippings, being sold away from her family, and witnessing the suffering of fellow slaves. Her narrative serves as a powerful testimony to the resilience of the human spirit amidst dehumanizing circumstances, setting the tone for the rest of her account as she strives for recognition of her humanity and the quest for freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Slavery -- West Indies Prince, Mary Fugitive slaves -- West Indies -- Biography HT Text Historical Fiction Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - General 189900 189901 2024-10-08T05:12:04.072765 2023-09-08T07:26:10.622734 text/html text/html 188640 2006-02-24T13:35:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 68811 2006-02-24T13:35:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 154426 2024-10-08T05:12:11.480708 application/epub+zip 155883 2024-10-08T05:12:07.870750 application/epub+zip 133276 2024-10-08T05:12:06.492762 application/epub+zip 316975 2024-10-08T05:12:14.082694 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 302508 2024-10-08T05:12:10.556733 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 273454 2022-09-08T13:21:37.160241 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 172755 172649 2024-10-08T05:12:03.626753 2023-09-08T07:26:10.292746 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 172526 2006-02-24T13:35:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 64976 2006-02-24T13:35:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 172518 2006-02-24T13:35:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 64951 2006-02-24T13:35:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22193 2024-10-08T05:12:14.213700 application/rdf+xml 16053 2024-10-08T05:12:07.041778 image/jpeg 3756 2024-10-08T05:12:06.765733 image/jpeg 150387 2024-10-08T05:12:04.090760 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia