1. Slave Narrative and the Female Voice in Abolitionist Writing
... -like piety. No sexual assaults are blatantly mentioned, though surely they took place. For this reason, the narrative is often criticized as being, in A. M. Rauwerda's words, "more representative of the agendas of external creators of the text than of Prince herself- (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 History of Mary Prince also exemplifies the importance of the woman's voice in the anti-slavery campaign...
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- Grade Level: High School