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A Colored Man Round the World (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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A Colored Man Round the World (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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This remarkable book, written by former slave David F. Dorr,
published in the mid-nineteenth century and only recently
rediscovered, is an uncommon travel narrative. In the 1850s Dorr
accompanied Louisiana plantation owner Cornelius Fellowes on a tour
of the world's major cities, with the promise that when they
returned to the United States, Dorr would be given his freedom.
When that promise was broken, Dorr escaped to Ohio and wrote of his
experiences in "A Colored Man Round the World,"
Malini Johar Schueller has edited and annotated the 1858 text and
added a critical introduction that provides a useful context for
understanding and appreciating this important but heretofore
neglected document. Her edition of "A Colored Man Round the World"
provides a fascinating account of Dorr's negotiation of the
conflicting roles of slave versus man, taking into account all of
the racial complexities that existed at the time. As a traveler
abroad, Dorr claimed an American selfhood that allowed him mobility
in Europe, and he benefited from the privileges accorded American
"Orientalists" venturing in the near East. However, any empowerment
that Dorr experienced while a tourist vanished upon his return to
America.
The book will be welcomed for the rare perspective it provides of
the mid-nineteenth century, through the eyes of an African-American
slave and for the light it casts on world and U.S. history as well
as on questions of racial and national identity.
Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English, University of
Florida.
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