Mary Prince

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Standard Name: Prince, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Prince
Nickname: Mary, Princess of Wales
Nickname: Molly
MP , whose text was published in 1831 after she came to London from the Caribbean, became well-known as an early nineteenth-century writer of detailed slave autobiography.
Title-page of the original edition of Prince's "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave", 1831, with a stanza from William Cowper.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Joan Riley
Sandra Courtman discusses Riley's work in From Mary Prince to Joan Riley: Women Writers and the Casual Cruelty of a West Indian Childhood in Postcolonial Traumas, edited by Abigail Ward , 2015.
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
Susanna Strickland, later SM , finished writing down from dictation The History of Mary Prince, the life narrative of a former slave.
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Susanna Moodie
They married in an Anglican church because Dissenters could not marry in chapel until 1836. Moodie was a Presbyterian Scot.
Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry, Vol.
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Among those who attended the wedding was the former slave Mary Prince , whose...
Textual Production Andrea Levy
Texts that she mentions using for research include Mary Prince 's autobiography, Lady Nugent 's journal, Matthew Lewis 's Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies, Mary Seacole 's Wonderful...
Textual Features Malorie Blackman
Here stories and poems by present-day writers (like Grace Nichols , John Agard , Alex Haley , Blackman herself, and Benjamin Zephaniah ) appear along with testimony from some of those who were actually enslaved...

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Texts

Alexander, Ziggi et al. “Introduction; Supplement; Appendices”. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, edited by Moira Ferguson, Pandora, 1987, pp. 1-41.
Prince, Mary, and Susanna Moodie. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Pringle, Thomas, F. Westley and A.H. Davis; Waugh and Innes, 1831.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
Prince, Mary. “The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave”. The Classic Slave Narratives, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Penguin, 1987, pp. 183-38.