Mary Prince

Mary Prince (born October 1, 1788 in Devonshire Parish , Bermuda ; died in 1833 or after) was a British abolitionist and author.

Life

Mary Prince was born in Bermuda to an enslaved family of African descent. Following her escape, she later lived in London , England. In 1829 she brought a petition to the British Parliament demanding that as a slave she have the right to freedom. In the same year a law was passed requiring every slave from the West Indies in Great Britain to be freed.

Her book The History of Mary Prince was published in 1831 and was the first autobiographical record of a black woman to appear in Britain. Your report shaped the discourse on the abolition of slavery. In 1834 slavery was completely banned with the Slavery Abolition Act passed by Parliament in 1833. Hundreds of thousands of slaves were released into their freedom.

“The man who says that a slave is happy with slavery - that they don't want to be free - is either ignorant or a liar. I've never heard a slave say anything like that. "

Honors

Since 2007 a plaque commemorates Mary Prince in London.

On October 1, 2018, a doodle motif from the popular search engine Google depicted her and her works. On some days, the search engine uses a different logo to indicate a memorial day.

literature

The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself , 1831, digitized

Web links

Literature by and about Mary Prince in the Internet Archive
Mary Prince's literature as an audio book at Librivox
Biography on the pages of the University of California, Santa Barbara

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Mary Prince bronze plaque in London , accessed October 1, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b NRZ of October 1, 2018. Accessed October 1, 2018
↑ Mary Prince: Google Doodle for the 230th birthday of the British abolitionist & slave liberator . In: GoogleWatchBlog . October 1, 2018 ( googlewatchblog.de [accessed October 1, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Prince, Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British abolitionist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1788
DATE OF DEATH	after 1833

[plack-1] A ^b Mary Prince bronze plaque in London , accessed October 1, 2018.

[NRZ-2] NRZ of October 1, 2018. Accessed October 1, 2018

[3] Mary Prince: Google Doodle for the 230th birthday of the British abolitionist & slave liberator . In: GoogleWatchBlog . October 1, 2018 ( googlewatchblog.de [accessed October 1, 2018]).