We do not have a picture of Mary Prince. Mary Prince was born in 1788 to a slave family in Bermuda. She was sold to a number of brutal owners and suffered from terrible treatment. Prince ended up in Antigua belonging to the Wood family. In December 1826, she married Daniel James, a former slave who had bought his freedom and worked as a carpenter and cooper. For this act, she was severely beaten by her master. In 1828 she travelled to England with her owners. She eventually found freedom, however, only in England and could not return to her husband. Mary campaigned against slavery, working alongside the Anti Slavery Society taking employment with Thomas Pringle, an abolitionist writer and Secretary to the Anti-Salvery Society. She became the first woman to present an anti-slavery petition to parliament and the first black woman to write and publish an autobiography, ‘The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave '. The book was a key part of the anti slavery campaign. It made people in Britain aware that although the slave trade had been made illegal, the horrors of life on the plantations continued for so many people.
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