Prince, Mary

LC control no.	n 86058712
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Prince, Mary *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
See also	Pringle, Thomas, 1789-1834 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	Q937246
Associated country	England Caribbean Area
Birth date	1788?
Death date	1833
Place of birth	Bermuda Islands Devonshire Parish (Bermuda Islands)
Place of death	England
Field of activity	Antislavery movements Trials Slave narratives
Affiliation	Moravian Church
Found in	The history of Mary Prince, 1987: CIP title page (Mary Prince) Early Black British writing, c2004: page 233 (Mary Prince; c. 1788-c. 1833) Wikipedia, May 18, 2023 (Mary Prince (c. Oct. 1, 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 an enslaved family of African descent; 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) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Prince> African American National Biography, accessed September 7, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Prince, Mary; author of a slave narrative; born c.1788 in Brackish-Pond, Bermuda; sold to John Wood, moved with the Wood family to Antigua; joined the Moravian Church, learned to read the Bible; filed unsuccessful petition to the British Parliament to gain her freedom (1829); servant in the household of Thomas Pringle; dictated her story to a family friend with Pringle editing and published the narrative, The History of Mary Prince, London (1831), which played an important role in British abolitionist debates; her life provided a crucial perspective on the role of slaves, particularly female slaves, in attaining freedom and autonomy; died 1833, presumably in England)
Associated language	eng