Black Excellence: Nancy Gardner Prince
This spring, Nantucket’s sixth-grade students will be reading a book both by and about a fellow Nantucket resident.
Local historian Frances Karttunen’s graphic narrative, The Adventures of Nancy Gardner Prince, Written by Herself, tells the story of Nancy Gardner Prince, a Black 19th-century Nantucketer.
Prince, who was active in both the women’s suffrage and abolition movements during her life, wrote an autobiography before disappearing from the historical record in the mid-1850s. Karttunen reworked her autobiography into a graphic narrative, and, thanks to a grant from the Nantucket Education Trust, that book will now be taught to sixth-grade students at the Cyrus Peirce Middle School.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Gardner_Prince
Nancy Gardner Prince (September 15, 1799 – c. 1859) was an African-American woman born free in Newburyport, Massachusetts,[1] 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.[2]