' The History Of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave

While living in Lancaster, Massachusetts, a large group of Indians attacked, as well as burned the town. Mary and her three children were captured along with twenty one others on February 10, 1676 in the midst of King Philip's war. During this time, her husband was gone to Boston to ask the Massachussetts General Assembly for military protection against the indians. Her daughter Sarah, who was six at the time, was fatally wounded a week later and eventually died. While she was imprisoned, Mary travelled around one hundred and fifty miles. The captives traveled as

As Mary’s story unravels, she continues to suffer long hours of work, starvation, and separation from her family. She reads her holy bible and is constantly reminding herself that God is with her and will see her through these trials. Her spirits are lifted her master agrees to sell Mary to her husband, and her mistress begins the journey with her, but before long the mistress decides not to go any further and they turn back. Not long after, she starts to loose hope that she will ever be reunited with her family. She becomes discouraged, and her spirit

William Grimes in the, Life of William Grimes the Runaway Slave, and Harriet Jacobs in the, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, both wrote about their lives under the hands of slavery. Though they both experienced hardships, the difference in gender played a role in how their enslavement was endured. These different experiences influenced different tones. In Chapter three of Incidents, Jacobs tone is emotional, hopeless and depressing. She writes “ But to the slave mother New Year’s day comes laden with peculiar sorrows.

This paper discusses the experiences of African American Women under slavery during the Slave Trade, their exploitation, the secrecy, the variety of tasks and positions of slave women, slave and ex-slave narratives, and significant contributions to history. Also, this paper presents the hardships African American women faced and the challenges they overcame to become equal with men in today’s society. Slavery was a destructive experience for African Americans especially women. Black women suffered doubly during the slave era.

In the story about Mary Prince, she had several owners. Mrs. Williams one of Mary Prince’s first owners was described as kind-hearted good women, who treated all her slaves well (Prince 7). Mr. Williams was described as an abusive husband, I think this may be the reason why she treated her slaves with so much kindness. Mary Prince had another owner by the name of Mr.D. Mr.D lived in Grand Quay, a small town, where he had owned a salt pound (Prince 19). Mr. D received profits for having slaves work in his salt pound. When he would beat Mary or order her to be punished she would describe him as being emotionless (Prince 20). The fact that Mr.D was running a business lead me to believe he could not show any weakness towards the slaves. This type of mentality would perhaps make the slaves fear him greater than the typical slave owner and raise the level of productivity of the slaves in fear of being beaten with no remorse. Even though this seems inhuman, it was also Mr.D’s livelihood to ensure the slaves were continuing to work

Throughout Mary Prince 's narrative, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, it is clearly evident that the brutal treatment from Prince 's mistresses, which she inflicts upon her slaves, is a common occurrence. Through her perspective, she tells the readers about the harsh treatment she receives from both her masters and mistresses. By doing so, she achieves sympathy from the readers, who could possibly be of the middle-class demographic. In Prince 's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, she chronicles her life as a slave in order to demonstrate the inhumane treatment by the slave

White explores the master’s sexual exploitation of their female slaves, and proves this method of oppression to be the defining factor of what sets the female slaves apart from their male counterparts. Citing former slaves White writes, “Christopher Nichols, an escaped slave living in Canada, remembered how his master laid a woman on a bench, threw her clothes over her head, and whipped her. The whipping of a thirteen-year-old Georgia slave girl also had sexual overtones. The girl was put on all fours ‘sometimes her head down, and sometimes up’ and beaten until froth ran from her mouth (33).” The girl’s forced bodily position as well as her total helplessness to stop her master’s torture blatantly reveals the forced sexual trauma many African females endured.

of slaves seemed to be a distinctive feature of West Indian life for slaves in the 18th and 19th century. Sandra Paquet argues that ’social and religious prohibitions surrounding sexually explicit material in nineteenth century Britain and legal liabilities attached to the publication of such tracts placed further constraints on Mary Prince’s individual voice.’ Thomas Pringle being part of the Evangelical movement was fully aware that middle aged white Christian housewives would not want to read about sexual abuse as this would have been distasteful and black slave women already had a reputation for being sexually promiscuous so this would have discredited Prince as a witness. That said, Mary carefully gives details of incidents that have

Elizabeth Bowser an African American slave. later in her life with the help of Mary Van Lew became a spy for the Union army. Born as Mary Elizabeth Richards sometime around the year 1839, she was a slave of John Van Lew of Virginia. In the 1840 - 50’s, when John Van Lew died, Mary Elizabeth was moved to serve the Davis family, that is, the family of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis for part time. This soon led to a full time position at the Confederate White House in Richmond. During Mary Elizabeth Bowser’s time there, she used her education and photographic memory to help gather intelligence by reading military documents left on top of desks or tables and eavesdropping on people's conversations. Bowser then delivered the information

The main thesis of The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos is that for some Puritan women in Early America, such as Eunice Williams, living in “captivity” among Kahnawake Indians was preferable to living with their family where they were severely limited by their gender. In this book John Demos examines the Indian way of life in comparison to that of the New Englanders. It is a story about the meeting of three cultures: the Catholic French, the Puritan English, and the Native Americans.

Many reformers, especially in the northern states, dedicated their lives to abolish slavery, and gain success to The Abolitionist Movement in the United States. The main goal of The Abolitionist Movement was to end racial discrimination and murder segregation. After radical abolitionism was fueled by the religious fervor of the Great Second Awakening, many people were advocating for emancipation on religious ground. Maria W. Stewart was the first abolitionist and women’s right activist to speak and give speeches in public to mixed crowds of men and women. “Stewart practiced self-help to become educated and work for the uplift of all women, especially in the black community, from lives of

In the slave narrative The History of Mary Prince, harsh treatment and brutal beatings from Prince's depraved slave mistresses occur almost regularly to Mary Prince and her slave companions. Prince narrates the whole story from her perspective and gives elaborate detail as to what a slave has to endure. Although all of Prince's owners are men, Prince focuses on the brutal beatings that the women pressed upon her. Mary Prince depicts the slave-master's wives as evil, twisted women who just beat Mary for no particular reason. Prince uses the advantage of showing these women as evil to gain the sympathy and compassion from her audience, an audience who would primarily be white, Christian women. Not only does the audience see the harsh reality

While in the Horse Regiment she became friends with a fellow soldier and eventually fell in love with him. She confessed her gender and he readily accepted her, especially since he already liked her as a male friend. They left the military soon after and were married. This was the first time in Mary's life that she lived as a woman. They lived happily and started an inn called The Three Horseshoes. Her happiness didn't last long though. Her husband died and she once again lived as a man. She rejoined the military, but didn't enjoy it as she had before. She got on a ship headed for the West Indies. On the way the ship was attacked and captured by Captian Calico Jack and Anne Bonny and Mary was taken aboard (it should be noted that she still was disguised as a man).

Although Marylyn is from an African-American family, they do not really do much as for the cultural aspect. However, as African Americans, they believe that their voices matter. They are often saddened about the injustices that happen due to the color of one’s skin. Marylyn is not the activist type of person. She conveys her voice through her art. She brings diversity to her art in order to show that this is what the world needs. Another thing is that due to her being African-American female, she is looked down upon for loving anime. She is hoping to be a voice to black anime loving females everywhere and hopes to bring people out of their shell. Many of Marylyn’s family is in the arts. It is not necessarily in the same art style as Marylyn.

The notion of slavery, as unpleasant as it is, must nonetheless be examined to understand the hardships that were caused in the lives of enslaved African-Americans. Without a doubt, conditions that the slaves lived under could be easily described as intolerable and inhumane. As painful as the slave's treatment by the masters was, it proved to be more unbearable for the women who were enslaved. Why did the women suffer a grimmer fate as slaves? The answer lies in the readings, Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl and Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative which both imply that sexual abuse, jealous mistresses', and loss of children caused the female slaves to endure a more dreadful and hard life in captivity.