Mary Prince says of England that “few people in England know what slavery is. I have been a slave—I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what a slave knows; and I would have all the good people in England to know it too, that they may break our chains, and set us free” (Prince, The History of Mary Prince). She moves from the West Indies to England in 1828 with her masters and is technically freed, according to English law. The country represents for her freedom. She leaves the Woods and says that "I took courage and resolved that I would not be longer thus treated, but would go and trust to Providence" (20).

Slavery was abolished in England in 1833 (BBC)  and there was a prevalence of anti-slavery societies, some of which helped Mary Prince. The Anti-Slavery Society (1823–1838) had the goal of abolishing slavery completely, especially in wake of the Slave Trade act of 1807, which made it illegal to trade slaves, but it didn’t address the state of existing enslaved people.

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works cited

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200205-how-britain-is-facing-up-to-its-secret-slavery-history#:~:text=If%20we%20hear%20at%20all,more%20of%20an%20open%20wound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Slavery_Society_(1823%E2%80%931838)#:~:text=The%20Society%20for%20the%20Mitigation,as%20the%20Anti%2DSlavery%20Society.