In this ready the part that was most significant to me was when she got married and Mrs. Wood was so angry. This part mainly just raised many questions for me, for example why is she so angry when slaves get married in slavery like its a common thing? and being that she as a white woman who should feel superior to Mary, why is Mary’s inferior union upsetting her so much? Is it that she may be unhappy with her marriage, that she just doesn’t want her slave to find happiness in any form. It makes me think that Mrs. Wood has deeper feelings when it comes to Mary. Does Mary’s strength make her feel less of a woman. Or does she just feel weak and her cruel behavior towards Mary make her feel like she has some type of power. It just really made me question why does Mary’s union offend Mrs wood so much. The book also says that she wouldn’t hit Mary but she would get her husband, Mr Wood, to do  it. Is this a way for Mrs wood to show that she has more control that she can even get her husband, who is a white male which is more superior, to do what she wants.

Mary, having being hired out to work for Mr. Woods who was later planning to move to Antigua had asked him to take her to Antigua because she wanted to get away from her Master, Mr. D. After their arrival in Antigua Mr. Woods wrote a letter to Mr. D to purchase Mary and he replied “that she was not to be sold to anyone who would treat her ill.” (pp. 21-2) This statement stands out most to me because it is ironic that an abusive master would not want to sell his slave to anyone who will not treat her well.

I believe, although Mr. D was a brutal master he had a heart of human potentials. He seems to know that the harsh punishment he unloads on his slaves were not a kind and humanly thing to do, but that he had to do it anyway since that is the norm in his kind of business. Another important reason for Mr. D to write such note to Mr. Woods before selling Mary could be because Mary has been his slave for quite some time and he wanted her to get better treatment by someone else.

Mr. Woods was perceived to be a decent owner for Mary, but his wife influenced him to cause her much grief and ill-treatment. In my opinion Mrs. Woods is more evil than the Master himself. I just could not understand though, why the Woods told Mary to seek another owner, to find another place of refuge, that she is free to go where ever she pleases, and even gave her a note to support her claim on many occasions but, when it’s time set her free he refuses.

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.

What was interesting to me in this section Mary Prince seemed to find new strength and self-worth, I don’t know if it was because she was back in her native Bermuda or after the harsh treatment she endured in Turk Island she felt she had paid her dues, and had nothing worst to face. She started to stand up for herself and even others, one day she came home from collecting water and found her master beating his daughter, Mary jumped in and stopped the assault, as a slave that took tremendous courage and strength, she could have paid a heavy price for that action, there was another case where she defended herself from her master beating her and another time refused to bath him, then proceeded to call him out on his indecent ways, she even found a way to rid herself of her master after she decided she couldn’t serve him anymore. All these were sighs of her being an unusual slave, and one who was never satisfied with the status quo of her time.