Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 348

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(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Nancy Prince. A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince. 89 pages. 12mo, publisher's gilt cloth, minimal wear but front board a bit warped; moderate foxing and minimal wear to contents. Boston, 1853
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Second edition. Nancy Gardner Prince (1799-1856) was a free Black woman. Writing at the peak of the slave narrative, she had a different and quite unusual story to tell. Raised in poverty in Massachusetts, she and her husband Nero Prince moved to Russia, where he served as a footman in the czar's court and she ran a boarding house. She later did a missionary stint among the recently emancipated Jamaicans, experiencing close encounters with slavery in Florida and New Orleans on her voyage home. Afro-Americana 8486 (this edition); Blockson 269 (third edition); not in Clark's Travels in the New South.