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Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
One thread that fits "insightful question that was overlooked" and "informative answer".
Most of the questions are about how such a journey could have been accomplished, and that hasn't been answered. (The Negro Motorist Green Book wasn't until 1936, so no help there.) I wonder about the details: in particular, did it become easier or more comfortable outside the land of legally mandated segregation, or was it still hard to find hotels and restaurants and such?
But /u/sunagainstgold's answer started, "I hope you won't mind a slightly unconventional style of answer..." to the last question, "What will it be like applying for a job and finding housing in my new city?". They explain why Seattle would have been an unlikely destination, but then they gave wonderfully detailed examples of the lives of four black people who came to Seattle. It was fascinating reading the details, but I wondered as I was reading whether they were inventing hypothetical people, or how they got such details about random people ... until I got to the zinger in the last line.
Bravo! But, unfortunately for /u/sunagainstgold, gold is currently up 2-0.
u/partymoses answered How did Native Americans like the Souix Indians acquire so many modern repeating rifles?
u/Chamboz answered What exactly made the Ottoman Janissaries "outdated and obsolete" towards the end of their existence?
u/dandan_noodles answered Were people in the 18th/19th century afraid that the ornate military uniforms ordinary soldiers wore would clash with class divisions?
Gone all weekend, so... here we go now: