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Mary Prince Research Papers

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Nayeli Mota
Ms. Frankenburg
AP U.S. History
17 August 2014

The History of Mary Prince (1)
Mary Prince was born on a farm belonging to Mr. Myners, alongside her Mother and Father who were his slaves. As an infant Mr. Myners died and she was sold along with her mother to a new household away from her father, where he was sold elsewhere. Mary and her mother were fortunately sold to quite a kind family who did not treat their slaves as much like garbage but instead were treated more of as they were, humans. Although she was a slave, she was treated very well in the William’s and Pruden’s household. Mary had a very positive experience as a child and believes it to be the happiest time in her life. Thus, leading her childhood being the happiest …show more content…

Mary lived a childhood that any other slave would have dreamed to have. She had a kind owner and was treated quite well for a person with the title of “slave.” After being separated from her kind master her eyes were opened to reality, and she experienced the life of a slave who was treated no more than mere cattle.
In my opinion I believe the worst and hardest part of slavery for Mary was being separated from those she loved and transitioning herself from a kind household of masters to that of heartless beasts. In her youth she had the happiest time of her life full of joy and love. Then her world turns upside down when her master sells her off to another person far away from those she loved and cared for. mary was taken to Turks Island were here journey of living the hard life of a slave begins. Mary is abused from every master she is set to work for and is always worked to her wits end. In addition to Mary’s physical damage taken by the hard work, she was also separated from the people she loved and was alone. Fortunately Mary had great luck and was helped by people around her and was able to survive through the most horrible things. In the long run, I believe the worst part for Mary in her …show more content…

Douglass was separated from his mother as an infant, and his father, he has no knowledge of other than that of him being a white man and as rumored have said to be that there is a possibility that his master was also his father. Masters used their slaves to satisfy their desires weather it was profitable or pleasurable. It was quite common that if a master was to use a salve to pleasure them that a child was to be born. If the mistress was to find out of her husbands actin it would be of great offence to the her and the masters family. Id the child is to be born a “mulatto” then he/she is to be sold of to a place with distance from the masters home. The master would feel wrong to have to treat his child like all the other slaves and have him live in the same place as his other children. The masters would feel that the most right thing to do would be to sell off their children to other slaveholders, so he doesn't have to himself see what is going to happen to the forbidden child he had. Although the child is of the masters blood, he gave no sentiment in letting him be sold off to other slaveholders, to only be treated harshly. The child is of only a few darker shades of color, and just because of this the child was not given the right to stay by his parents to be loved and cared for like any other white

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