Wikibooks: Women's Writing Before Woolf: A Social Reference/Mary Prince (1788–1833)/2

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• Subjects: North Atlantic
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= Mary Prince (1788 1833) = = Biography = Mary Prince was born at Brackish Pond Bermuda An island located in the North Atlantic Ocean. on the 1st of October 1788 to an African slave family. Her mother was a house servant of Charles Myners. Her father was a sawyer An occupation someone who saws wood. owned by David Trimmingham. And Prince had three brothers and two sisters. In her early life she was sold multiple times around the Caribbean notably in 1800 to Captain John Ingham and his cruel wife who flogged their servants often as “an ordinary punishment for even a slight offence” (Prince Strickland 1831) Prince M. Strickland S. (1831). The History of Mary Prince A West Indian Slave (1st ed.). F. Westley and A.H. Davis. [Find at https //gutenberg.org/files/17851/17851 h/17851 h.htm ] . Prince was then sold to a salt raker The raking of crystalized salt into piles often to be stored shipped then sold. in 1806. The conditions were poor and then were “often forced to work up to 17 hours” ( Mary Prince 2022) w Mary Prince . In 1810 a Bermuda master and his daughter bought Prince and she recalled being physically abused by her master often and was forced to wash him to avoid more beatings. In 1815 Mary was sold once more to John Adams Wood. She worked as a domestic slave and began to suffer from rheumatism A chronic inflammatory disorder that affects joints and more. which hindered her ability to work ( Mary Prince 2022). In 1817 she was baptized as part of the English Church. In Antigua Native name Waladli or Wadadli. An island in the Caribbean. 1826 “Prince married Daniel James a former slave who had bought his own freedom” ( Mary Prince 2022). Eventually Prince was brought to England in 1828 continuing as a servant to the Woods family. Adams Wood refused to emancipate To be freed from control or the power of another. Prince this meant as slavery remained legal in Antigua Prince could not go back to her hometown and her husband without being captured and given back to Wood. = Literary Works = Prince was ...