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Author:   Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern University, Boston)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009259477

ISBN 10:   1009259474
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   08 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of figures; List of contributors; Chronology; Introduction: Mary Prince and the slave narrative Nicole N. Aljoe; 1. The history of Mary Prince and the web of Black Atlantic print culture Kerry Sinanan; 2. The ornamental, the polemical, and the testimonial: Pringle, Strickland, and anti-slavery print culture Juliet Shields; 3. Notions of voice in The History of Mary Prince Dyanne Martin; 4. Mary Prince and Black Britain Olivia Carpenter; 5. Reading the spiritual worlds of Mary Prince Sue Thomas; 6. The trials of Mary Prince David Lambert; 7. Mary Prince: an economic life beyond slavery Gelien Matthews; 8. Sex, kinship, and other freedom practices: reading gender and sexuality in The History of Mary Prince Anna Feuerstein; 9. Disability, mobility, and agency in Mary Prince's History Andrea Stone; 10. Mary Prince in Bermuda and the Caribbean Shelby Johnson; 11. Mary Prince's environmental history Elizabeth Polcha; 12. Mary Prince and digital humanities Sarah Connell; Index.

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Nicole N. Aljoe is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She is a co-director of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Mapping Black London and Director of the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac digital humanities projects. She is the author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709–1838 (2012) and a co-editor of three volumes: The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English (2024), Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (2014), and A Literary History of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (2018).

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