Book ID: CBB521196674

Colored travelers: mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War (2016)

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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. (Publisher)

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Review Geoff D. Zylstra (April 2020) Review of "Colored travelers: mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War". Technology and Culture (pp. 693-694). unapi

Review Michael R. Hall (June 2018) Review of "Colored travelers: mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War". The Journal of Transport History (pp. 126-128). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Claborn, John
Reid-Vazquez, Michele
Sparks, Randy J.
Johnson, Kenneth L.
Candacy A. Taylor
Knight, R. J.
Concepts
African Americans
Race
Civil rights
Mobility
Travel
Technology and race
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Central America
North America
New York (U.S.)
Caribbean
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