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Mary Prince

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writer and enslaved woman

Person · Open Library

Born
~1788
Works
12

Top works

  • Three Narratives of Slavery
  • Slave Narrative Six Pack 4
  • The History of Mary Prince (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
  • History of Mary Prince
  • History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (an African American Heritage Book)

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1958-06-07
Active to
2016-04-21
adult contemporary r&bafricanafro housecaribbeanclubcomposers

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
39
Total plays
295

Mary Prince | Drummer & Instructor Mary Prince is a successful instructor and drummer. After graduating from BIMM London, she has been self-employed and full-time teaching since 2017. Mary started MP Drum Tuition and rented her first teaching space in 2016. She got her first student in 2017, moved on to an office space in 2018, and was teaching over 50 students per week by then. She continued to teach many students even through the pandemic by pivoting and not pausing. She shares her insights a

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Quotes

  • I then saw my sisters led forth, and sold to different owners; so that we had not the sad satisfaction of being partners in bondage. When the sale was over, my mother hugged and kissed us, and mourned over us, begging of us to keep up a good heart, and do our duty to our new masters. It was a sad parting; one went one way, one another, and our poor mammy went home with nothing.
  • It was night when I reached my new home. The house was large and built at the bottom of a very high hill; but I could not see much of it that night. I saw too much of it afterward. The stones and the timber were the best things in it; they were not so hard as the hearts of the owners.
  • My mistress ... caused me to know the exact difference between the smart of the rope, the cart-whip, and the cow-skin, when applied to my naked body by her own cruel hand.
  • To strip me naked—to hang me up by the wrists and lay my flesh open with the cow-skin, was an ordinary punishment for even a slight offence.
  • I was not permitted to see my mother or father, or poor sisters and brothers, to say good bye, though going away to a strange land, and might never see them again. Oh the Buckra people who keep slaves think that black people are like cattle, without natural affection. But my heart tells me it is far otherwise.
  • We ... worked through the heat of the day; the sun flaming upon our heads like fire, and raising salt blisters in those parts which were not completely covered. Our feet and legs, from standing in the salt water for so many hours, soon became full of dreadful boils, which eat down in some cases to the very bone, afflicting the sufferers with great torment.

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