Prince and Wood had increasing conflict here. By that time, it was illegal to transport those that were enslaved out of England, but it did not make slavery illegal in the country, even though public opinion believed it did. In 1828 Wood and his family traveled to London and took Prince with them as a servant. In December 1826, Prince married Daniel James, a former enslaved man who had bought his freedom by saving money from his work. She was baptized in the English church in 1817 and accepted for communion, but she was afraid to ask Wood for permission to attend. When Wood was traveling, Prince earned money for herself by taking in washing and by selling coffee, yams, and other provisions to ships. In 1815, Prince was sold a fourth time, to John Adams Wood of Antigua.
After that, she was hired out to Cedar Hill for a time, where she washed clothes for her owner and earned money for him. She was physically mistreated by her master while she was here, but Prince stood up to him twice - once to defend his daughter, who he also beat, and again to defend herself when he hit her for dropping cooking utensils. In 1810, Prince was returned to Bermuda, where her master had relocated with his daughter.
She had been sold three times since the age of 12. When her mother’s master died that year, Prince, her mother, and her siblings were sold as household servants to Captain Darrell. Mary Prince was born into slavery at Devonshire Parish on October 1, 1788.
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