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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.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Cover ; Contents; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K ; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
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Subject African Americans -- Travel -- United States.
African Americans -- Travel.
United States.
African Americans.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Freedom of movement -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Freedom of movement.
Travel restrictions -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Travel restrictions.
United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur. Colored travelers. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016] 9781469628578 1469628570 (DLC) 2016019962 (OCoLC)945745436
ISBN 9781469628592 (electronic book)
1469628597 (electronic book)
9781469628578 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1469628570 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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