W Jan 16 Read the Introduction and The History of Mary Prince to p. 38

Posted at 11:39 p.m. EST

Taken from page 10 of Am I Not A Woman and a Sister? The History of Mary Prince,

     "When I reached the house, I went in directly to Miss Betsy. I found her in great distress; and she cried out as soon as she saw me, "Oh Mary! my father is going to sell you all to raise money to marry that wicked women. You are my slaves, and he has no right to sell you; but it is all to please her." She then told me that my mother was living with her father's sister at a house close by, and I went there to see her."

     I find that it is a strange conflict to talk about being a slave, an item, and about that item's family in the same sentence. If slaves are not human, if slaves are items that hold value and can be traded at any whim, why is it that one, Miss Betsy shows fondness of them as humans, and two tells the "item", about their family?

What I am trying to say is that their seems to be confusion brought on by this myriad of owners that Mary goes through. (To be clear, Mary has a few good owners but then the rest are awful.). She is treated humanely and inhumanely at the some time. She is an other in her society, even when she became free.

She is never truly free in that society.

Pg 34 applies directly to this blog.
"She said, "If she goes the people will rob her, and then turn her adrift."

Finally, There is a passage on page 37, that ends with the end of the reading on page 38 if which is very long and thus unreasonable for me to try to post, that starts with "I am often much vexed,..." that shows an example of misrepresentation.
   Many slaves were not able to read and or write  even much for that matter communicate on a level of which they could be understood outside of their "class". So, it is a farce for anyone other than a slave to say how a slave must feel and even worst so for people to believe what that person says.