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A Harlot's Progress Book

Going back to the origins of black fiction in 18th-century slave narrative, A Harlot's Progress tells the story of Mungo, an elderly slave engaged in dictating the main events of his life to the Abolitionist, Mr Pringle, who is "authoring" his autobiography. Unfortunately, the true history of Mungo's life--both as a slave and as an African-keeps on going missing in Pringle's attempts to transform that life into a moral emblem or fable of savage innocence preceding the fall into slavery. In fact, that life refuses to confirm to any of the versions white Europeans--whether in the guise of the painter Hogarth, Mungo's "owners", Lord and Lady Montagu, or Thomas Thistlewood, the captain of the slave ship responsible for "blooding" him, both sexually and otherwise--try and project onto … read more...
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