Colored Travelers
Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship before the Civil War
By Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
240 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 28 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-2857-8
Published: November 2016 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-2858-5
Published: October 2016 -
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6392-0
Published: February 2021
John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
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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.
About the Author
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor is assistant professor of history at Smith College.
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