No right to an honest living : the struggles of Boston's Black workers in the Civil War era / Jacqueline Jones.

"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 refu...

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