In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle
, Methodist
secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon...
Employer
Mary Prince
MP
went to work for the family of Thomas Pringle
, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry, Vol.
35
, 1 Sept.–28 Feb. 1994.
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Literary responses
Mary Prince
On the one hand the re-issues indicate that MP
's book was popular; on the other hand a rash of virulent attacks, both published and through the law-courts, shows that it had hit powerful economic...
Publishing
Sarah Stickney Ellis
After this and a few other poorly selling ventures in privately printed material, SSE
followed the advice of a friend and contacted the publisher Thomas Pringle
, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
, who offered...
Reception
Mary Prince
The aftermath dragged on. Thomas Pringle
of the Anti-Slavery Society
, who had published MP
's work, sued Thomas Cadell
, London publisher of Blackwood's; the man who claimed ownership of MP
sued Pringle for libel.
Timeline
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Texts
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.