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Mary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the West Indies to an English reading public that was largely unaware of its atrocities. Prince was born in Bermuda to an enslaved family. She spent her early life in harsh conditions and was eventually sold to John Adams Wood of Antigua, working as his domestic servant. She joined the Moravian Church, where she learned to read, and married Daniel James, a former slave who had bought his freedom. In 1828 she traveled to England with the Woods family and after protracted efforts by abolitionists was able to leave their control. Encouraged by her new employer, Thomas Pringle, who also served as her editor, Prince wrote and published her book in 1831 to wide acclaim. While eighteenth-century slave narratives largely focused on Christian spiritual journeys and religious redemption, Prince was part of a growing trend of abolitionist writers focused on the injustice of slavery. Her work stands alongside better-known narratives such as A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Adding to its importance, few early women's slave narratives exist.

Slavery --- Fugitive slaves --- Runaway slaves --- Slaves --- Prince, Mary. --- Enslaved persons

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Prince, Mary --- Asa-Asa, Louis --- Slaves -- West Indies, British -- Biography --- Pringle

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This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince's experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society in London. It focuses on the three writers who produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie - with glances at their pro-slavery opponent, James MacQueen, and their literary friends and relatives. The History connects the Black Atlantic, a diasporic formation created through the colonial trade in enslaved people, with the Anglophone Atlantic, created through British migration and colonial settlement. It also challenges Romantic ideals of authorship as an autonomous creative act and the literary text as an aesthetically unified entity. Collaborating with Prince on the History's publication impacted Moodie's and Pringle's attitudes towards slavery and shaped their own accounts of migration and settlement.

English literature --- Slave narratives --- Slavery in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Prince, Mary. --- Wes Indies, British --- Biography --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Autobiography --- Slaves' writings --- Enslaved persons in literature --- Enslaved persons' writings

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By means of contextualized readings, this work argues that autobiographic writing allows an intimate access to processes of colonization and decolonization, incorporation and resistance, and the formation and reformation of identities which occurs in postcolonial space. The book explores the interconnections between race, gender, autobiography and colonialism and uses a method of reading which looks for connections between very different autobiographical writings to pursue constructions of blackness and whiteness, femininity and masculinity, and nationality. Unlike previous studies of autobiog

Commonwealth literature (English) --- Autobiography --- Women and literature --- English prose literature --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Literature --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Commonwealth of Nations literature (English) --- English literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- History --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- Prince, Mary. --- COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE (ENGLISH) --- WOMEN AND LITERATURE --- ENGLISH PROSE --- IMPERIALISM IN LITERATURE --- COLONIES IN LITERATURE --- PRINCE (MARY) --- SLAVERY IN LITERATURE --- BLIXEN (KAREN) --- LIVELY (PENELOPE) --- LESSING (DORIS), 1919 --- -AUTOBIOGRAPHIE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) --- IDENTITE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- WOMEN AUTHORS --- COMMONWEALTH --- 20th CENTURY --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- Colonies in literature