The true account of a young slave girl's life of torture and degradation galvanized Britain's abolitionist movement when it was first published in 1831.

Now, more than 200 years after she was born into a Bermudan slave family, Mary Prince's unique contribution to ending slavery is being recognised with a plaque in her honour.

The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, her autobiographical story of savage beatings, servitude and being left for dead, created a sensation when it was released