The primary goal of compiling the stories was to invoke opposition and assist in the fight for the abolishment of slavery. Individuals who were once slaves have written numerous narratives detailing their experience. Numerous slave narratives attempt to account for the horrible experience that the blacks went through in the hands of the whites. Consequently, one can never give a comprehensive account of American history without mentioning slavery. Restriction on access: This digital edition has limited access restrictions.Slavery is an integral component of American history. Turk's Island Permanent URL: Use and reproduction: The digital edition is freely available for public download and non-commercial redistribution. Acquisitions source: Learn more: Subjects and keywords: Narratives The History of Mary Prince a West Indian Slave. Throughout the text, Prince details the various work demanded of her, including nursing, cooking, cleaning, and outdoor manual labor on the plantations and in the salt-ponds of "Turk's Island." She also recounts the physical, psychological and sexual abuse she and other enslaved people suffered through, as well as the frequently abusive domestic relationships within white plantation-owning families.
Davis, Stationer's Hall Court and by Waugh & Innes, Edinburgh, 1831 Date created: 1831 Type of resource: Text Genre: Texts (document genres) Format: electronic Map data: Scale not given 32.307800, -64.750500, Scale not given 17.074656, -61.817521, Scale not given 21.691247, -71.586914 Abstract/Description: In The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave Related by Herself, Prince recounts her life as a slave in Bermuda, and then in Antigua. Project Gutenberg (Contributor) Language: English Publisher: First Edition - London, England : F. Related by Herself Creator: Prince, Mary (Author) Contributor: Strickland, Susannah (Transcriber) Title: The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave.
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