Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

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Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil WarPaperback, 1 February 2021

Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War
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Part of Series
The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
Part of Series
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cu
Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Date Published
1 Feb 2021
ISBN-10
1469663929
ISBN-13
9781469663920

Description

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. They refused to ride in "Jim Crow" railroad cars, fought for the right to hold a U.S. passport (and citizenship), and during their transatlantic voyages, demonstrated their radical abolitionism. By focusing on the myriad strategies of black protest, including the assertions of gendered freedom and citizenship, 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.

Drawing on exhaustive research from U.S. and British newspapers, journals, narratives, and letters, as well as firsthand accounts of such figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and William Wells Brown, Pryor illustrates how, in the quest for citizenship, colored travelers constructed ideas about respectability and challenged racist ideologies that made black mobility a crime.

Product Details

Author:
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 February 2021
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm
ISBN-10:
1469663929
ISBN-13:
9781469663920
Language:
English
Location:
Chapel Hill
Pages:
240
Weight:
371.95 gm

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