found: Her A Black woman's odyssey through Russia and Jamaica, 1989:CIP t.p. (Nancy Prince) galley (Nancy Gardner; b. 1799)
found: LC manual auth. card(hdg.: Prince, Nancy (Gardener), Mrs., b. 1799)
found: Shockley, A.A. Afro-American women writers, 1746-1933, c1988:p. 48, etc. (Nancy Gardener Prince, 1799- ?; name is spelled "Gardener" in the 1st ed. of the narrative, and "Gardner" in subseq. eds.)
found: African American National Biography, accessed March 11, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Prince, Nancy; Nancy Gardner; writer, evangelist, lecturer, abolitionist, traveler, civil rights activist; born 15 September 1799 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States; baptized by the Reverend Thomas Paul, a religious and political leader known for his abolition work (1819); went to Russia and was accepted as a member of her local St. Petersburg community quite easily (1822); troubled by the harsh winter climate she returned to the United States (1833); continued her work on establishing an asylum for orphaned children and deepened her interest in antislavery causes; volunteered with a missionary contingent, and sailed to St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica (1840); published "The West Indies: Being a Description of the Islands" (1841) and a memoir "A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince" (1850 and 1853); died c.1856)
found: Awakening to justice, 2024:CIP galley (Nancy Gardener Price. Revivalist laywoman, émigré to Russia, entrepreneur, philanthropist, abolitionist, and missionary. Grew up in the Boston area; lived in Russia with her husband for ten years. Spoke Russian and some French. Died in 1859, age 60. buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Everett, MA)
