1. Slave Narrative and the Female Voice in Abolitionist Writing
Of harvesting, washing, nursing her mistress's children, cooking, tending farm animals and other miscellaneous "work - work - work!... 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 mistresses and a master who forced her to wash him while he was naked.(4) Hence, there was more to Prince's narrative than a mere blind compliance with the Anti-Slavery Society's requirements. ... Rauwerda notes that the Woods' nickname fo...
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