Mary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic - Worl

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Mary Prince and the Romantic Atlantic World; 2. From Slave Narrative to Migrant Narrative; 3. Representing Slavery in the Colonies and the Metropolis; 4. Migration, Dispossession, and Slavery; 5. Conclusion: Afterlives.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Juliet Shields, Shields Juliet
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108791656
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79165-6
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections; Elements in Eighteenth-Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, slavery; migration; authorship; print; Atlantic