"A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince" is an autobiographical account that chronicles the life of Nancy Prince, an African American woman who navigated the complexities of her time with resilience and determination. Through her vivid storytelling, Prince shares her experiences as a free woman in a society marked by racial and gender inequalities. Her narrative not only highlights her personal journey but also sheds light on the broader struggles faced by African America...

A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince is a remarkable nineteenth-century Black autobiographical travel narrative, combining spiritual testimony, antislavery witness, and sharp social observation. Prince recounts her early struggles in New England, her years in imperial Russia as the wife of Nero Prince, a founder of Boston's African Masonic Lodge, and her later missionary journeys to Jamaica. Written in a plain yet forceful style, the work belongs beside slave narratives...

In "A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince," the author chronicles her extraordinary journey as an African American woman in the early 19th century. Blending personal memoir with travelogue, Prince's literary style is marked by vivid descriptions and poignant reflections, offering a rare glimpse into the cultural landscapes of both the United States and the Caribbean during a time when many voices like hers were marginalized. Through her eloquent prose, Prince navigates i...

In "A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince," Nancy Prince captivates readers with her eloquent prose and vivid storytelling, as she chronicles her life journey from slavery to freedom. Written in the 19th century, this compelling autobiography explores themes of resilience, community, and the quest for justice within the socio-political landscape of her time. Prince's literary style strikes a balance between personal reflection and keen observation, as she deftly captures...

Excerpt: "A denomination under which is comprehended a large chain of islands, extended in a curve from the Florida shore on the northern peninsula of America, to the Gulf of Venezuela on the southern. These islands belong to five European powers, viz. Great Britain, Spain, France, Holland and Denmark. An inhabitant of New England can form no idea of the climate and the productions of these islands. Many of the particulars that are here mentioned, are peculiar to them all." This edition ha...

As my unprofitable life has been spared, and I have been, by the providence of God, wonderfully preserved, it is with gratitude to my Heavenly Father, and duty to myself, that I attempt to give to the public a short narrative of my life and travels. I was born in Newburyport, in 1799. My mother was the daughter of Tobias Wornton, who was stolen from Africa, when a lad, and was a slave of Capt. Winthrop Sargent; and, although a slave, he fought for liberty, and was in the Revolutionary army...

Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford, leaders of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. Written between 1630 and 1651, it is an oft cited first person account of Pilgrim life in the Colony.

WITH A FOREWORD BY DAVID OLUSOGAThis is the extraordinary story of Olaudah Equiano: Child slave. Soldier. Free man. Traveller. Abolitionist. Celebrity.Kidnapped as a child into slavery, Equiano spent the rest of his life fighting for his freedom. After years of slavery, working on ships that carried him across empire and into battle during the Seven Years War, he eventually managed to purchase his own freedom, and went on to become a leading figure in the e...

'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.' Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author's account of his enslavement after his childhood kidnapping in Africa, and his journey from slavery to freedom. Equiano was slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker merchant, and he vividly depicts the appal...

The Pilgrim Fathers contained religious Separatists who had fled England for Holland in 1608 to escape repression in England. Among them was William Brewster and his family from Scrooby Manor, Nottinghamshire.

“That negro slavery is not the only one that this country has had to contend against is surprisingly shown in Miss Bourne’s ‘White Slavery in Colonial Time.’” -St. Alban’s Messenger, May 28, 1903Where white people kept as slaves to work on America colonial platations against their will?In 1903, Annie Nettelton Bourne (1865-1943) answers this question in her short 12-page work titled "White Slavery in Colonial Times," that appeared in the June 1903 issue of ...

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