Mary Prince was born in Brackish Pond, Bermuda, in 1788. Her mother was enslaved in the household of Charles Myners, and her father was a shipbuilder's sawyer. As a baby, she was sold with her mother to captain Williams, who gave her as a gift to his granddaughter. Prince served as a childhood companion to the granddaughter until age twelve, when she was hired out as a nurse to a neighboring household. After the Captain’s wife died, he sold Prince to another slave-owner in Spanish Point, Bermuda. After a period working in the salt ponds of Turks Island, she returned to Bermuda and was sold once more, this time to John Wood of Antigua. In 1817, Prince joined the local Moravian Church. There she met her future husband, a free carpenter and cooper
