Mary Prince Blog Post #2 John Quito TUE-THUR

One of the points which strongly grabbed my attention is when after shortly returning from the Turks Islands she requests to leave Mr. D and wishes to go to Mr. Wood. Upon going to Mr. Wood she falls ill with rheumatism, and is of no use to Mr. Wood. Whilst she is ill they get a new woman to help them with nursing the child. The woman complains to the woman with out any reason about Mary Prince, and wants her to face repercussions. In short she is making Mary look bad so that she can be on top as lead mistress. This piece is very intriguing because she also colored, but free and its shocking to know that even other colored people wont help each other out, and would rather be above them by taking her position as mistress while she is down. This adds meaning to the text because one would expect colored people to help each other, and was quite unexpected and helps to shed a bit of light towards slavery in the Caribbean.

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