Nancy Gardner Prince

Her father was Thomas Gardner, a seaman from Nantucket, who died when she was an infant, leaving her in the care of her mother who subsequently married several times, and had seven children.

[4] On February 15, 1824, they were married and later travelled to Russia, where she opened a boarding home and made clothing for infants, while her husband was a footman to Czar Alexander I in St.

[7] In 1840, Prince went on two missionary trips to Jamaica, where the nation's enslaved people had recently been freed in 1838, with the support of abolitionists W. L Garrison and Lucretia Mott.

In her time in Jamaica, she worked in Kingston alongside church officials and raised funds for a free labor school for Jamaican girls.

[11] Prince does this by adapting to the cultural and historical customs of the places she visits and comparing them to her lived experiences in her early life in America as a Black Woman.