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