... 397). Such judgments, however, grossly underestimate Prince's skillful storytelling. Sexual assaults are not stated outright in the text, but are alluded to. Moira Ferguson notes that, Mary Prince writes around the taboo against relating sexual experience (even abusive ones) by encoding her abusive sexual experiences in accounts of angry jealous ... slave I know what a slave knows; and I would have all the good people of England to know, that they might break our chains, and set us free. (Prince 74) Here Prince is persuasive in her appeal to sympathy - she uses a sentimentality generally...

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... was a 27 year old escaped slave. Douglass was self educated, having no formal educational training. I was personally astounded by his spirit to learn, second only to his desire to be free. In 1841, Douglass attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket. He had attended several before this one in particular but, "seldom had much to say. . . what I wanted to say was ... "Great House." (p. 57) Regarding slave songs in general, Douglass tells us "They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension- and "The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spir...

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