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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur, author.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Travel--United States.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Freedom of movement--United States--History--19th century.

Freedom of movement.

Travel restrictions--United States--History--19th century.

Travel restrictions.

African Americans--Travel.

United States--Social conditions--19th century.

United States.

Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 218 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469628578

1469628570

OCLC:

945745436