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

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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 yea...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Main Author: Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
African Americans > Travel.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
Freedom of movement > United States > History > 19th century.
Travel restrictions > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Freedom of movement.
Social conditions.
Travel restrictions.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 218 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book

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