It is essentially her own, without any material alteration farther Has been omitted, and not a single circumstance or sentiment has beenĪdded. Mary's exact expressions and peculiar phraseology. Pruned into its present shape retaining, as far as was practicable, It was written outįully, with all the narrator's repetitions and prolixities, and afterwards To be at the time residing in my family as a visitor. The narrative was taken down from Mary's own lips by a lady who happened Master's, which will be found in the Supplement, induced me to accede to She wished it to be done, she said, that good people in England might hearįrom a slave what a slave had felt and suffered and a letter of her late The idea of writing Mary Prince's history was first suggested by herself. DAVIS, Stationers' HallĬourt And by WAUGH & INNES, EDINBURGH. "By our sufferings, since ye brought us To the man-degrading mart,- All sustain'd by patience, taught us Only by a broken heart,- Deem our nation brutes no longer, Till some reason ye shall find Worthier of regard, and stronger Than the colour of our kind."
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