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Mary Prince and the Slave Narrative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2025

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Nicole N. Aljoe
Edited by
Nicole N. Aljoe
Nicole N. Aljoe
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Northeastern University, Boston
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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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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince
  • Online publication: 24 April 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009259484.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince
  • Online publication: 24 April 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009259484.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince
  • Online publication: 24 April 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009259484.001
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