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1213177The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slavehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-history-of-mary-prince-a-west-indian-slave-2/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/751491/7a7d95cd-f2c4-423c-b2aa-1a583bb7bb22.jpg?v=638336067629900000102102MXNLibrary of AlexandriaInStock/Ebooks/<p>The idea of writing Mary Princes history was first suggested by herself. She wished it to be done, she said, that good people in England might hear from a slave what a slave had felt and suffered; and a letter of her late masters, which will be found in the Supplement, induced me to accede to her wish without farther delay. The more immediate object of the publication will afterwards appear. The narrative was taken down from Marys own lips by a lady who happened to be at the time residing in my family as a visitor. It was written out fully, with all the narrators repetitions and prolixities, and afterwards pruned into its present shape; retaining, as far as was practicable, Marys exact expressions and peculiar phraseology. No fact of importance has been omitted, and not a single circumstance or sentiment has been added. It is essentially her own, without any material alteration farther than was requisite to exclude redundancies and gross grammatical errors, so as to render it clearly intelligible. After it had been thus written out, I went over the whole, carefully examining her on every fact and circumstance detailed; and in all that relates to her residence in Antigua I had the advantage of being assisted in this scrutiny by Mr. Joseph Phillips, who was a resident in that colony during the same period, and had known her there.</p>...1204217The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave102102https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-history-of-mary-prince-a-west-indian-slave-2/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/751491/7a7d95cd-f2c4-423c-b2aa-1a583bb7bb22.jpg?v=638336067629900000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20219781465581730_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9781465581730_<p>The idea of writing Mary Princes history was first suggested by herself. She wished it to be done, she said, that good people in England might hear from a slave what a slave had felt and suffered; and a letter of her late masters, which will be found in the Supplement, induced me to accede to her wish without farther delay. The more immediate object of the publication will afterwards appear. The narrative was taken down from Marys own lips by a lady who happened to be at the time residing in my family as a visitor. It was written out fully, with all the narrators repetitions and prolixities, and afterwards pruned into its present shape; retaining, as far as was practicable, Marys exact expressions and peculiar phraseology. No fact of importance has been omitted, and not a single circumstance or sentiment has been added. It is essentially her own, without any material alteration farther than was requisite to exclude redundancies and gross grammatical errors, so as to render it clearly intelligible. After it had been thus written out, I went over the whole, carefully examining her on every fact and circumstance detailed; and in all that relates to her residence in Antigua I had the advantage of being assisted in this scrutiny by Mr. Joseph Phillips, who was a resident in that colony during the same period, and had known her there.</p>9781465581730_Library of Alexandrialibro_electonico_c9be663b-b0b2-3a5d-810d-66329892d9e6_9781465581730;9781465581730_9781465581730Mary PrinceInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/markmoxford-epub-ba3cf90b-b7f5-404b-837d-e31b0c2f5167.epub2021-02-24T00:00:00+00:00Library of Alexandria