Description: This study uses these first-hand accounts to attain glimpses of African American life in the post-emancipation South, incorporating a broad cross-section of the views of European travelers and Euro-American visitors, based upon travel books as well as articles and essays from ...
Review Quotes:
"Here are gems of scholarship--about the opportunity for blacks to earn a dollar--so bright that the surrounding scholarly landscape of education, religion, politics, and more is inescapably and subtly informed. Viewed from the vantage ground of the twenty-first century, racism, continually unearthed by Hornsby, underscores, as no recent book has, the uphill climb of blacks." --Sterling Stuckey, distinguished professor emeritus of history, University of California, Riverside
"Hornsby's study...is a well-organized text that would best serve an undergraduate course in American history. Clearly laid out and easy to follow, the book deftly, fairly, and successfully pressents the predominantly male black image in the minds of mostly male white travelers in the postemancipation South." --Journal of Southern History