New Google Doodle celebrates slavery abolitionist Mary Prince
Mary Prince was a pretty inspiring woman who is recognised as a galvanising force in abolishing slavery in the British colonies.
And today, she is also the subject of a beautiful Google Doodle. The 18th century anti-slavery campaigner and autobiographer is pictured standing on a beach reading a book surrounded by white seagulls.
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The doodle is a celebration of her 230th birthday this year.
Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates Mary Prince, a British abolitionist and autobiographer, recalling her experience of being born into an enslaved family, which had a galvanizing effect on the anti-slavery movement 📖 → https://t.co/Qk2y3uuaQl pic.twitter.com/D2yhUpIRp2
— Google UK (@GoogleUK) October 1, 2018
Prince was born into slavery in Bermuda in 1788 and was sold from master to master her whole life, until she ended up in England after slavery was abolished. Legally free but with no means to support herself, Prince became the first woman in England to present a petition to Parliament, arguing for her and others' right to freedom.
Two years later Prince made history again when she became the first black woman in England to publish her own story of living through slavery.
Google shared a couple of paragraphs from Prince's 1831 autobiography, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, in a blogpost.
Happy birthday, Mary.
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