Trailblazing author Mary Prince (c.1788–after 1833) was the first Black woman to publish an autobiography in Britain. Born enslaved in Bermuda, she suffered repeated sales and brutal treatment in the Caribbean before being brought to England in 1828. There, she fled her enslaver and, though illiterate, narrated her life to Susanna Strickland. Published in 1831 as The History of Mary Prince, it was the first published account of a Black woman’s life in the UK who was enslaved. The book exposed the cruelty of slavery and became a powerful catalyst in the British abolition movement, swaying public opinion and anti-slavery legislation.

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