{"id":62252,"date":"2021-11-15T02:58:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62252"},"modified":"2021-11-15T02:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T02:58:43","slug":"a-colored-man-round-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62252","title":{"rendered":"A Colored Man Round the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Colored Man Round the World<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Michigan Press<\/a>
\n1999 (originally published in 1858)
\n232 pages
\n3 drawings.
\n5-1\/2 x 8-1\/2
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-472-09694-7
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-472-06694-0<\/p>\n

David F. Dorr<\/strong><\/a> (ca. 1827-1872)<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Malini Johar Schueller<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of English
\nUniversity of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n

London<\/a>, Paris<\/a>, Constantinople<\/a>, Athens<\/a>, Cairo<\/a> and Jerusalem<\/a> in the 1850s\u2014as seen through the eyes of a former slave<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/a> plantation owner Cornelius Fellowes on a tour of the world’s major cities, with the promise that when they returned to the United States<\/a>, Dorr would be given his freedom. When that promise was broken, Dorr escaped to Ohio<\/a> and wrote of his experiences in A Colored Man Round the World<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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<\/a>, and he benefited from the privileges accorded American “Orientalists<\/a>” venturing in the near East. However, any empowerment that Dorr experienced while a tourist vanished upon his return to America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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