Mary Prince Day or Somer’s Day in Bermuda
Mary Prince Day or Somer’s Day in Bermuda is held on August 2. Celebrated on Friday before the first Monday in August. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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It commemorates Admiral Sir George Somers who was the founder of the English colony of Bermuda. Somers Day was observed for nearly two decades before Parliament created the two-day Cup Match holiday in 1947. From 2020, this holiday was renamed as Mary Prince Day, honouring a once enslaved Bermudian who became a hero of the abolitionist movement in Britain.
Mary Prince, an enslaved Bermudian—and, thus, a British subject—is the first known Black woman to relate a slave narrative. She was the storyteller of an abolitionist collaborative writing team that brought her story to print.
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