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- Publication date
- 2021
- Topics
- Travel writing -- History -- 19th century, African diaspora in literature, American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism, American literature -- African influences, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, African diaspora in literature, American literature -- African American authors, American literature -- African influences, British colonies, Travel, Travel writing, Great Britain -- Colonies -- Description and travel, Atlantic Ocean Region -- Description and travel, Atlantic Ocean Region
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press
- Collection
- dukeuniversitydukepress; duke_libraries; americana
- Contributor
- Duke University Press
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Duke University Press
xix, 260 pages : b illustrations ; 24 cm
"In Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther played a role in the Christianization of colonial Nigeria. Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a formerly enslaved girl gifted to Queen Victoria, traveled the African colonies as the wife of a prominent colonial figure and at the protection of her benefactress. Alongside Nancy Gardiner Prince, Martin R. Delany, Robert Campbell, and others, these writers used their mobility as African diasporic and colonial subjects to explore the Atlantic world and beyond while they negotiated the complex intersections between nation and empire. Rather than categorizing them as merely precursors of Pan-Africanist traditions, Gunning traces their successes and frustrations to capture a sense of the historical and geographical specificities that shaped their careers"--
Includes bibliographical references and index
Mary Seacole's West Indian hospitality -- Home and belonging for Nancy Prince -- The repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther -- Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa -- Sarah Forbes Bonetta and travel as social capital
"In Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther played a role in the Christianization of colonial Nigeria. Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a formerly enslaved girl gifted to Queen Victoria, traveled the African colonies as the wife of a prominent colonial figure and at the protection of her benefactress. Alongside Nancy Gardiner Prince, Martin R. Delany, Robert Campbell, and others, these writers used their mobility as African diasporic and colonial subjects to explore the Atlantic world and beyond while they negotiated the complex intersections between nation and empire. Rather than categorizing them as merely precursors of Pan-Africanist traditions, Gunning traces their successes and frustrations to capture a sense of the historical and geographical specificities that shaped their careers"--
Includes bibliographical references and index
Mary Seacole's West Indian hospitality -- Home and belonging for Nancy Prince -- The repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther -- Martin R. Delany and Robert Campbell in West Africa -- Sarah Forbes Bonetta and travel as social capital
Notes
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science & the Arts and the Provost Office. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.
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