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

Author
Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
1 online resource (xv, 218 pages)

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Subject(s)
Series
  • John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture [More in this series]
  • The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Summary note
"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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
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.
ISBN
  • 9781469628592 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1469628597 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781469628585 ((ebook))
  • 1469628589 ((ebook))
OCLC
962258243
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