The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Book

The only thing I wish is that we could have read Mary's story in her own words and her own dialect, "unintelligibility" be damned. I could have also done without a fair bit of the editor's commentary, including the part where he posits that slavery was "a curse to the oppressor scarcely less than to the oppressed: its natural tendency is to brutalise both" and says "I am inclined to doubt whether [...] the master is not even a greater object of compassion than his bondman." Disgusting that he'd even imply it, much less outright say it. "It was 1830 Laura, he was trying his best to get his fellow whites on the bandwagon." I don't care. Do it some other way.

Still, precious to read. Every first hand story we have from that era should be chiselled in stone.