Taking liberties: Enslaved women and anti-slavery in the caribbean

Gender and Imperialism

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 137-157

  Beckles, Hilary McD ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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3. Moira Ferguson (ed.), The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself, 1831 (London, Pandora Press, 1987), p. 84.
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