![]() ![]() She left their temporary home in London in 1828 in the midst of disputes over her alleged poor conduct and insubordination. 1817, had brought her to England in June 1828. Prince’s owners John and Margaret Wood, who lived in Antigua and had acquired Prince in c. Within months, three editions of the narrative had been published plans for a fourth edition were dropped after Mary Prince’s owner in Antigua John Wood instigated libel action against Pringle over his handling of Wood’s response to Anti-Slavery Society interventions to secure Prince’s freedom in Antigua as well as Britain. In early 1831, a particular conjunction of people and events encouraged and enabled Thomas Pringle, the Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society in Britain, to publish on his own undertaking The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself, generally remembered today as the only slave narrative of a West Indian woman. ![]()
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