Devonshire Parish, Bermuda (October 1, 1788- c 1833)

Mary Prince, born enslaved, was the first Black woman in Britain to publish an autobiography of her experience as a slave. Born in the colony of Bermuda to an enslaved family of African descent. Prince was sold many times, moved around the Caribbean, and taken to England as a servant. She dictated her life story to Susanna Strickland, a young lady living in the home of Thomas Pringle, secretary of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions (aka Anti-Slavery Society, 1823-1838) Prince’s narrative was published in the United Kingdom as the History of Mary Prince 1831, the first account of the life of a Black enslaved woman to be published in the United Kingdom. The Project Gutenberg eBook of History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, by Mary Prince.