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| Title Statement | No right to an honest living: the struggles of Boston's Black workers in the Civil War era / Jacqueline Jones. |
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| Author | Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- |
| Publication | New York: Basic Books,2023. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | viii, 532 pages |
| ISBN | 9781541619791 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr06825840 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-501) and index. |
| Summary | "Before, during, and after the US Civil War, Boston's Black workers were barred from the skilled trades, factory work, and public-works projects. In Boston, as in cities across the North, white abolitionists focused virtually all their energies on the plight of enslaved Black Southerners, while refusing to address the challenges faced by their Black neighbors. The author presents inspiring and heart-wrenching stories of people -- from day laborers and domestics to physicians and lawyers -- who ingeniously forged careers in the face of monumental obstacles"-- |
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| By Topic | African Americans--Employment--History--Massachusetts--Boston |
| Free Black people--Social conditions--19th century--Massachusetts--Boston | |
| Fugitive slaves--Social conditions--19th century--Massachusetts--Boston | |
| Labor--History--19th century--Massachusetts--Boston | |
| Working class African Americans--Social conditions--19th century--Massachusetts--Boston | |
| By Location | Boston (Mass.)--History--Social aspects--Civil War, 1861-1865 |
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