Traveling Economies

"The black and white women travel writers whom Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman investigates in Travelling Economies astonish modern readers with their daring, stamina, and courage. Steadman's interdisciplinary work with archives, newspapers, memoirs, and letters and her close readings of the resulting evidence recover these important women's travels and writing and invite us to rethink where and how went and what they wrote in antebellum America."--BOOK JACKET.