She was the spiritual, cultural and military leader of the Windward Maroons and her importance stems from the fact that she guided the Maroons through the most intense period of their resistance against the British, between 1725 and 1740. ... However, because Prince's book relied on personal experience that depicted the brutality, inequality and suffering of the slaves, it altered the mines of many individuals. ... As a result, her book had an instant effect on public opinion and was published in three editions the first year. ... This means that they felt that Prince's book played ...

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In addition, the narrative is also considered as a typical American autobiography in that it: 1/ stands as a life of an individual who also 2/embodies guide to life for others and 3/ reports discovery of the self (we shall comeback to this last point later I mean the making of the self) but first one may wonder why Frederic Douglas felt compelled to tell his life story in the Narrative. ... As we have seen the book cover contains some external cues that are quite important for the reader such as the book title and the author's name and then contains you have another key element which...

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