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Mary Prince's narrative was one of the earliest to reveal the ugly truths about slavery in the West Indies to an English reading public that was largely unaware of its atrocities. Prince was born in Bermuda to an enslaved family. She spent her early life in harsh conditions and was eventually sold to John Adams Wood of Antigua, working as his domestic servant. She joined the Moravian Church, where she learned to read, and married Daniel James, a former slave who had bought his freedom. In 1828 she traveled to England with the Woods family and after protracted efforts by abolitionists was able to leave their control. Encouraged by her new employer, Thomas Pringle, who also served as her editor, Prince wrote and published her book in 1831 to wide acclaim. While eighteenth-century slave narratives largely focused on Christian spiritual journeys and religious redemption, Prince was part of a growing trend of abolitionist writers focused on the injustice of slavery. Her work stands alongside better-known narratives such as A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Adding to its importance, few early women's slave narratives exist

Straightforward, yet often poetic, accounts of the battle for freedom, these memoirs by three courageous black women vividly chronicle their struggles in the bonds of slavery, their rebellion against injustice, and their determination to attain equality.

Introduction: Structure of the Bluebook -- General principles of citation -- Getting started -- The Bluepages: an introduction to basic legal citation: Introduction -- Structure of legal citations -- Typeface for court documents -- Subdivisions -- Short citation forms -- Quotations -- Abbreviations, numerals, and symbols -- Italicization for style and in unique circumstances -- Capitalization -- Titles of judges -- Cases -- Constitutions -- Statutes, rules, and restatements -- Legislative materials -- Administrative and executive materials -- Books and other nonperiodic materials -- Periodical materials -- Court and litigation documents -- The internet -- Services -- Foreign materials -- International materials -- The Bluepages tables -- Court documents -- Jurisdiction-specific citation rules and style guides -- Rules -- Rule 1: Structure and use of citations -- Rule 2: Typefaces for law reviews -- Rule 3: Subdivisions -- Rule 4: Short citation forms -- Rule 5: Quotations -- Rule 6: Abbreviations, numerals, and symbols -- Rule 7: Italicization for style and in unique circumstances -- Rule 8: Capitalization -- Rule 9: Title of judges, officials, and terms of court -- Rule 10: Cases -- Rule 11: Constitutions -- Rule 12: Statutes -- Rule 13: Legislative materials -- Rule 14: Administrative and executive materials -- Rule 15: Books, reports, and other nonperiodic materials -- Rule 16: Periodical materials -- Rule 17: Unpublished and forthcoming sources -- Rule 18: The Internet, electronic media, and other nonprint resources -- Rule 19: Services -- Rule 20: Foreign materials -- Rule 21: International materials -- Tables -- Table T1: United States jurisdictions -- Table T2: Foreign jurisdictions (online only) -- Table T3: Intergovernmental organizations -- Table T4: Treaty sources -- Table T5: Arbitral reporters -- Table T6: Common words in case names, institutional author names, and periodical titles -- Table T7: Court names -- Table T8: Explanatory phrases -- Table T9: Legislative documents -- Table T10: Geographical terms -- Table T11: Judges and officials -- Table T12: Months -- Table T13: Institutional names in periodical titles -- Table T14: Publishing terms -- Table T15: Services -- Table T16: Subdivisions -- Index.