Journeys and Warnings

Cheryl Fish

Chapter Chapter 9 in Women at Sea, 2001, pp 225-243 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When Nancy Gardner Prince stood on the deck of the Romulus, leaving Boston for Russia in 1824, she must have felt the presence of all that was divine and terrible as she looked out to sea. A freeborn African American woman from Massachusetts who had worked as a domestic and had been a part of Boston’s tight-knit black community, Prince was about to leave the United States for the first time. Her experiences as a traveler—narrated in two travelogues and several shorter pieces—constitute important yet neglected components in the emerging discourse of the Black Atlantic. Her departure from the United States crystallized many important developments in her life that until recently had been silenced, marginalized, or simply ignored by critics and historians. Moreover, her journeys and subsequent accounts of them, as presented in her hybrid travelogues, add a significant gendered dimension to the Black Atlantic tradition and point to a complex narrative strategy through which we can study the transnational agency of black women.

Keywords: Black Woman; Bodily Harm; Truth Teller; Woman Writer; Colored People (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-08515-3_10

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