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Author Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur, author.

Title Colored travelers : mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War / Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 218 pages)
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Contents Nigger and home: an etymology -- Becoming mobile in the age of segregation -- Activist respectability and the birth of the "Jim Crow car" -- Documenting citizenship: colored travelers and the passport -- The Atlantic voyage and black radicalism -- Epilogue. Abroad: sensing freedom
Summary "Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. These were "colored travelers," activists who relied on steamships, stagecoaches, and railroads to expand their networks and to fight slavery and racism. This book tells the story of how the basic act of traveling emerged as a front line in the battle for African American equal rights before the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 6, 2021)
Subject African Americans -- Travel -- United States
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century
Freedom of movement -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Travel restrictions -- United States -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Travel
Freedom of movement
Social conditions
Travel restrictions
SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469628592
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9781469628585
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