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Nancy Gardner Prince

Born 1799

United States

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Nancy Gardner Prince (September 15, 1799 – c. 1859) was an African-American woman born free in Newburyport, Massachusetts, She wrote about her travels in Russia and Jamaica during the nineteenth century in her autobiography titled A Narrative of The Life And Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince, published in 1850.

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