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Article: The other white gold: salt, slaves, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and British colonialism.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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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 hours and grueling labor involved in salt raking. "I was given a half barrel and a shovel, and had to stand up to my knees in the water, from four o'clock in the morning till nine." After a ...
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