Pub Date: November 3, 1999
Dewey: 914.0428
LCCN: 99031471
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.97" H x 8.76" L x 5.52" W ( 0.98 lbs) 232 pages
BISAC Categories:
Social Science | Cultural and Ethnic Studies | African American and Black Studies | Travel | Essays and Travelogues | Enslavement | History | United States | 19th Century | Europe | Western | Literary Criticism | American | General | Popular Culture
Description:
London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s--as seen through the eyes of a former slave
Review Quotes:
". . . Dorr's use of travel narrative conventions turns concepts of slavery and freedom on their heads and invites new readings of this venture into a genre from which blacks were largely absent in the 19th century. A rare work, ably edited. . . ."
--Library Journal, July 1999