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Chapter 5 - Reading the Spiritual Worlds of Mary Prince

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2025

By
Sue Thomas
Edited by
Nicole N. Aljoe
Nicole N. Aljoe
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
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Summary

The approach to reading the array of texts that now constitute the editions of The History of Mary Prince is both historical and literary critical, attentive to Caribbean and British evangelical contexts and the practices and vocabularies of Christian religious denominations. The interdisciplinary and archival reach of the reading of Mary Prince’s spiritual worlds deepens understandings of her plural religious identity, as well as the meanings of Moravianism and Christianity in her experience as represented in The History and its reception. The chapter demonstrates the connective role of readers and researchers in extending the contexts in which she is remembered and in drawing out more fully the provenances of supplementary historical materials in recent editions of The History.

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plural spiritual identityMoravianismevangelicismreception of religious conversion
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The Cambridge Companion to Mary Prince , pp. 86 - 103
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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