Mary Prince Biography

After reading bloody shame Prince autobiography a West Indian slave, I was inspired by her story that I knew for it would be great for my final assignment paper.My thesis is even though, Mary Prince life improved when she moved to England she made money, got her book published, received wagerer treatment from an employer not a slave owner She never achieved her intent to be a free person in the eyes of the virtue after she left her slave owner Mr. Wood, she didnt crystalizeed her freedom and distribute a slave.Mary Prince was born in Brackish Pond, Bermuda in 1788, her bugger off was enslaved in the household of Mr. Charles Myners and father was a sawyer. She was bought along with her mother by old captain Darrel and given to his grandchild, little Betsey. After the death of her command she was sold several masters who mistreated her to the point that she had enough and unyielding to leave her slave owner Mr. Wood to seek help to gain her freedom in London with the Anti-Sla very society.Prince had earlier sought the help of the Anti-Slavery Society, who had obtained a lawyers opinion that, while she was free in Britain, this would not affect her levelheaded status as a slave if she were to return to Antigua. While she wished to be reunited with her husband, she was naturally reluctant to risk a return to slavery, particularly as she had ample reason to fear the vindictiveness and ill will of the Woods. iterate efforts were made by Pringle and the AntiSlavery Society to persuade posterior Wood to agree to sell Prince her freedom, but he persisted in his refusals. In 1829 Pringle also organized the submission of a petition from Prince to the British fantan in an attempt to have her declared free.