Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Biography

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor (née Elizabeth Anne Pryor; April 25, 1967) is an American historian. She is a professor of history at Smith College. Pryor is the author of Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War (2016), a history of travel by African-Americans prior to the American Civil War, and Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me (2026), a mix of memoir and historical reflection on the use of a racial slur that she refers to as the "N-word" or "n***er".

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