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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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 532 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
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Struggles of Boston's black workers in the Civil War era |
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Contents:
- Introduction: "Words are easy"
- Prelude: The Edloe sixty-six
- 1850-1860
- The fugitive economy
- Underground commons
- The world of the streets
- Boston in the shadow of slavery
- Women in service
- Making a living in unsettled times
- 1861-1865
- The politics of wartime work and charitable assistance
- Boston diaspora I
- "A higher standard of courage"
- Hardship on the homefront
- "False and exaggerated ideas of freedom"
- 1865-1875
- Their suffering housekeepers
- Boston diaspora II
- White men demanding their own rights, but refusing to concede to others theirs
- Persistent industry
- "Safely doing injustice" to black Bostonians.