Moving home : gender place and travel writing in the early Black Atlantic 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 Mary Seacoles West Indian hospitality Home and belonging for Nancy Prince The repatriation of Samuel Ajayi Crowther Delany and Campbell in West Africa Travel as social capital : Sarah Forbes Bonetta Coda: Home and the dislocation of diaspora.