When Myners died in 1788, Mary Prince, her mother and siblings were sold as household servants to Captain Darrell. She had three younger brothers and two sisters, Hannah and Dinah. Her father (whose only given name was Prince) was a sawyer enslaved by David Trimmingham, and her mother a house-servant held by Charles Myners. Mary Prince was born a slave at Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. It was reprinted twice in its first year. This first-hand description of the brutalities of enslavement, published at a time when slavery was still legal in Bermuda and British Caribbean colonies, had a galvanising effect on the British anti-slavery movement. Strickland wrote down her slave narrative which was published as The History of Mary Prince in 1831, the first account of the life of a black slave woman to be published in the United Kingdom. Prince was illiterate, but while she was living in London 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). After being sold a number of times, and being moved around the Caribbean, she was brought to England as a servant in 1828, and later left her master.
1 October 1788 – after 1833) was a British abolitionist and autobiographer, born in the colony of Bermuda (part of British North America until left out of the 1867 Confederation of Canada) to a slave family of African descent.
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