Colored Travelers : Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War /

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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 10...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Travel restrictions.
Social conditions.
Freedom of movement.
African Americans > Travel.
African Americans > Civil rights.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Libre circulation des personnes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Voyages > États-Unis.
Travel restrictions > United States > History > 19th century.
Freedom of movement > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Travel > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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