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The History of Mary Prince was the first account of the life of a Black woman to be published in the United Kingdom. Part of the avalanche of print culture that accompanied the transatlantic abolitionist movement, it has in recent years become an increasingly central text within pedagogy and research on Black history and literature, thanks to its vivid testimonies of Prince's thoughts and feelings about her gendered experience of Caribbean slavery. Embracing and celebrating a growing international scholarly and general interest in African diasporic voices, texts, histories, and literary traditions, this Companion weds contributions from Romanticists, Caribbeanists, and Americanists to showcase the diversity of disciplinary encounters that Prince's narrative invites, as well as its rich and troubled contexts. The first published collection on a single slave narrative or author, the volume is not only an authoritative, highly focused resource for students but also a model for future research.

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

9781009259453

ISBN 10:   1009259458
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   08 May 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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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