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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):
- Travel restrictions--United States--History--19th century.
- Travel restrictions.
- Freedom of movement--United States--History--19th century.
- Freedom of movement.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Travel--United States.
- United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Nigger and Home: An Etymology
- Chapter Two: Becoming Mobile in the Age of Segregation
- Chapter Three: Activist Respectability and the Birth of the "Jim Crow Car"
- Chapter Four: Documenting Citizenship: Colored Travelers and the Passport
- Chapter Five: The Atlantic Voyage and Black Radicalism
- Epilogue: Abroad: Sensing Freedom
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908855-1-7
- 979-88-908855-2-4
- 1-4696-2858-9
- 1-4696-2859-7
- OCLC:
- 962258243
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