The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave 3To permit her return would be "to subject himself to insult whenever
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Literature · Historical Fiction
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave 3
To permit her return would be "to subject himself to insult whenever
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she came in his way."
This is a most extraordinary assertion. Are the laws of Antigua then so favourable to the free blacks, or the colonial police so feebly administered, that there are no sufficient restraints to protect a rich colonist like Mr. Wood,--a man who counts among his familiar friends the Honourable Mr. Byam, and Mr. Taylor the Government Secretary,--from being insulted by a poor Negro-woman? It is preposterous.
