Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), after E.D.

Born into slavery in around 1753, Rachel Pringle was the daughter of an African woman and her master, a Scottish schoolmaster. In the 1770s, she became the first free woman of colour to own a hotel-tavern (and brothel) in Barbados and consequently became a relatively wealthy woman, dying in 1792 at the age of 38.