The woman who fled Barbados for London to confront her enslaver

(Image: Lauren Walker/Truthout) When writing my new book, Heiresses, it was important to me to highlight the lives of enslaved people, because we can&rsquo;t truly understand their significance without considering the human cost of their actions or inaction.Throughout the book I did my best to piece together fragments of enslaved peoples' stories. One woman&rsquo;s story was so striking that I…