The Mary Prince Narratives Part I, 2023

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Digital art

Fifty-one panels

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These narratives are excerpts taken from The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave. Related by Herself (1831). Prince is the first known Black woman to publish a narrative of her experience of enslavement in England. 

“I have been drawn to bringing the autobiographical account of Mary Prince to the forefront of a contemporary discourse  because most of what we know and understand about enslaved life derives from the diaries of white enslavers, and the limited first-hand accounts we have directly from enslaved individuals are from freed enslaved black men.” Elsa James

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The Mary Prince Narratives are part of The Blackness Series 

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