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The other white gold: salt, slaves, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and British colonialism.

From: The Historian  |  Date: 6/22/2007  |  Author: Kennedy, Cynthia M.

IN ONE OF the more famous slave narratives--in part because it was the first published account by a woman--Bermuda-born Mary Prince reported that "my master sent me away to Turk's Island. I was not permitted to see my mother or father, or poor sisters and brothers, to say good bye, though going away to a strange land, [where I] might never see them again." This unnamed slave owner had sold Prince to one of the holders of the salt ponds on present-day Grand Turk. Prince described long ...

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