Curious and Amazing Adventures of Maria Ter Meetelen; Twelve Years a Slave, the (1731- 43)

Marc Notes: Originally published: 1748.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.; Translation of: Wonderbaarlyke en Merkwaardinge gevallen ven een twaalfjarige slaverny. Publisher Marketing: From the age of thirteen I wandered abroad and at twenty-one I decided to take a little trip across France dressed as a man..... Maria ter Meetelen tells the story of her capture by Barbary pirates and twelve years as a slave at Meknes in Morocco. Straightforward and with no literary pretensions, her voice comes down the centuries, robust, clear, personal and often surprising: I do not complain at having been so far across the world, nor of my twelve years of slavery, nor of the suffering the Turks caused me, I can rise above that. But the spitefulnessand derision that my husband and I suffered from our fellow-countrymen cannot be forgotten, and is impossible for me to set it down here in writing. Contributor Bio:  Stone, Caroline, Do Caroline Stone is Curator of Collections at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, joining the gallery when it was established in 2003. For twenty years, she worked in art exhibition and education roles for its predecessor, Memorial University of Newfoundland Art Gallery/Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador. Contributor Bio:  Johnson, Karen, M. D. A retired educator, Karen Johnson taught writing to both children and adults in Maine schools and universities for thirty years. She has lived, hiked, canoed, and traveled by snowshoe over the same mountain trails taken by Molly Ockett more than two hundred years ago.