Author Mia Bay Talks About Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance Historians in the News
The history of transportation in America is intertwined as so many of our national practices are with segregation, racism, and white supremacy. Codified, state-sanctioned segregation on common carriers first stagecoaches, then trains arose mainly in the 19th century. The advent of mass transportation kind of takes shape around the same time as the abolition of slavery, first in the North and then in the South, author and University of Pennsylvania history professor Mia Bay said recently by phone. And it introduces this formerly enslaved population to white Americans, potentially on equal terms, for the first time, in ways that make whites very nervous. It sort of introduces new concerns about whether preexisting status is going to be observed.
Author Mia Bay Talks About Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
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