A Stranger in the VillageFarah J. Griffin, Cheryl J. Fish Dispatches, diaries, memoirs, and letters by African-American travelers in search of home, justice, and adventure-from the Wild West to Australia. |
Contents
AdVENTURERS | 3 |
MARY SEACOLE 1857 from Wonderful Adventures of | 15 |
NAT LOVE 1907 from The Life and Adventures | 23 |
THOMAS DETTER 1871 from Nellie Brown or The Jealous | 30 |
MATTHEW A HENSON 1908 from A Negro Explorer at | 46 |
Experience Ministerial Travels | 60 |
NANCY PRINCE 1853 from A Narrative of the Life | 68 |
The Story | 77 |
RUSSIA | 199 |
from The Crisis | 206 |
from The Crisis | 215 |
AUDRE LORDE 1984 Notes from a Trip to Russia | 221 |
HARRY HAYWOOD 1978 from Black Bolshevik | 228 |
STATESMEN ScholARS AND JOURNALISTS | 239 |
An Auto | 251 |
ARTHUR A SCHOMBURG 1933 My Trip to Cuba in Quest | 259 |
FANNY JACKSON COPPIN 1913 from Reminiscences of School Life | 87 |
AFRICA | 97 |
MARTIN R DELANY 1861 from Official Report of the Niger | 105 |
ROBERT CAMPBELL 1859 from A Pilgrimage to | 111 |
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL 1860 from The Relations and Duties | 124 |
EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN 1873 from From West Africa to Palestine | 137 |
W E B Du Bois 1924 Little Portraits of Africa | 146 |
tions in a Land of Pathos | 150 |
FRANCE | 167 |
Bennett | 175 |
from Negro Digest | 186 |
Meets Brown from Notes of | 193 |
KATHERINE DUNHAM 1969 from Island Possessed | 266 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR 1959 My Trip to the Land of Gandhi | 281 |
CARL T ROWAN 1956 A Colored Brother Lost | 290 |
GWENDOLYN BROOKS 1972 African Fragment | 301 |
SUE BAILEY THURMAN 1930 How Far from Here to Mexico? | 311 |
JUNE JORDAN 1989 Report from the Bahamas | 319 |
FLORENCE CAWTHORNE LADD 1982 Excerpts from a Dakar Diary | 330 |
NTOZAKE SHANGE 1998 All It Took Was a Road | 337 |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 363 |
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