![]() ![]() This was a long process which ran from 1828-33. One of the Reporters’ aims was to expose atrocities in the British colonies, and therefore Pringle decided to sponsor Prince to write a narrative of her experiences of slavery, and in addition to start the process of obtaining her freedom from slavery, by petitioning Parliament. ![]() ![]() Pringle was the then editor of the Anti-Slavery Reporter. She eventually found employment with Thomas Pringle in 1829. After pleas to the Woods to grant her manumission (freedom) were unsuccessful, Prince left the Woods household in November 1828. She came to England in 1828 with her owners (The Woods) where she worked as their house servant. ![]() Prince’s earliest years were spent in a succession of households in Bermuda, mainly as a domestic servant. Her mother was a house servant and her father a sawyer. Mary Prince was born a slave in 1788 in Brackish Pond, Devonshire Parish, Bermuda. I have been a slave – I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what a slave knows and I would have all the good people in England to know it too, that they may break our chains, and set us free. Oh the horrors of slavery! … the truth ought to be told of it and what my eyes have seen I think it is my duty to relate …. ![]()
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