“Expressing a desire to be furnished with some description of the marks of former ill-usage on Mary Prince person.” Mrs. Townsend, is saying I want to see the evidence of the continuous, brutal, devastated treatment that Mary Prince experience. I asked myself, how hard can it be to convince someone  who knows about slavery, of the broken, mutilated and battered state Mary’s body was in. However, what is not being addressed is the graphic episodes of the physical beating that was inflicted on her. Also what is not being addressed is the aftermath of the shame, pain, humiliation, manipulation and powerlessness Mary endurd as a slave.

Still there is much that is not being said and we have to read between the lines. Also, there is a silent voice crying out that is not being heard. A silence voice that if it could be heard that  in mourning for her lost of her innocence that was stolen. Crying for the freedom that her money could not buy, for the husband that she was beaten mercyfully for getting to. For the lost of her mother, brother, sister, and father, For the lost of a life. And yet, the main question is can I see the evidence of her beating.