Mary Prince

Mary Prince (born 1946; also called by her married name Mary Fitzpatrick ) is an African American woman wrongly convicted of murder who then became the nanny for Amy Carter, the daughter of US President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter, and was eventually granted a full pardon.

Early life and family She was born "in stark rural poverty" in 1946 in Richland, Georgia, the second of three sisters. She did not recall her father, and her mother and stepfather separated when she was aged about 9. Her older sister Carrie Francis died of a brain abscess when Mary was 12, after which she dropped out of school to look after her younger sister. She briefly married at age 14, and had her first son. A year later she began work as a domestic. She became pregnant with her second son in New York in 1964, before returning to Georgia in 1967, where she eventually became a cashier in a restaurant. after being interviewed in December 1970 Prince is also featured in the 2015 Kate Andersen Brower book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.