Mary Prince (c. 1788) was a Bermudian woman, born into slavery in Brackish Pond, now known as Devonshire Marsh, in Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. Her autobiography, The History of Mary Prince (1831), was the first account of the life of a black woman to be published in the United Kingdom. A first-hand description of the brutalities of enslavement, released at a time when slavery was still legal in British Caribbean colonies, it had a galvanizing effect on the anti-slavery movement.
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