Colored travelers : mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War / Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor.

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Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur [author.]

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TextSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xv, 218 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469628592
1469628597
9781469628585
1469628589

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Colored travelers.DDC classification:

323.1196/07309034 23

LOC classification:

E185.18 .P75 2016

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.

"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.

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