Mary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World

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ID19902046
AuthorsJ Shields (0000-0001-6953-4666, University of Washington, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-04-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueMary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108866392
OpenAlexW3141174059
Open LibraryOL34781640M
ISBN9781108866392
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited45

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. It focuses on the three writers who produced the text - Mary Prince, Thomas Pringle, and Susanna Moodie - with glances at their pro-slavery opponent, James MacQueen, and their literary friends and relatives. The History connects the Black Atlantic, a diasporic formation created through the colonial trade in enslaved people, with the Anglophone Atlantic, created through British migration and colonial settlement. It also challenges Romantic ideals of authorship as an autonomous creative act and the literary text as an aesthetically unified entity. Collaborating with Prince on the History's publication impacted Moodie's and Pringle's attitudes towards slavery and shaped their own accounts of migration and settlement

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Atlantic World · Colonialism · Genealogy · Literature · Romance · Travel writing · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Engineering · English literature · History and cricitism · Slave narratives · Slavery in literature

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