Abstract
Autobiographies and travel writings of Mary Prince, Nancy G. Prince, and Mary J. G. Seacole, in the early nineteenth century show transatlantic diaspora journey of colored women. They constructed mobile subjectivity based on experiences in West Indies, America, Russia, and Europe, meeting diverse people of nation and race. Mary Prince, a West Indies slave, showed strong racial solidarity with slaves while adapting and resisting to slavery, and chose Antigua rather than England as her place. Seacole and Nancy Prince had a strong desire to leave homeland crossing national boundaries to live in Russia and work in Crimean Peninsula, landing in England and the United States. Their attitudes toward Atlantic black community differed in that Seacole didn’t care much about racial enhancement of West Indies while showing strong affinity toward U.S blacks. Nancy Prince had a great concern for Jamaicans helping their betterment, but failed to build up racial trust. This tells us the challenge to which black cosmopolitanism faced. They also crossed gender norms of Victorian domesticity realizing public persona in social activities, and showed gender identity of strong confidence in self-independence of widows.
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