By Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Drawing on exhaustive examine from U.S. and British newspapers, journals, narratives, and letters, in addition to firsthand debts of such figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and William Wells Brown, Pryor illustrates how, within the quest for citizenship, coloured tourists developed principles approximately respectability and challenged racist ideologies that made black mobility a crime.
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