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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Main Author: Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Boston (Mass.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
African Americans > Employment > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Free Black people > Massachusetts > Boston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > Massachusetts > Boston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Working class African Americans > Massachusetts > Boston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Labor > Massachusetts > Boston > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
African Americans > Employment.
Labor.
Social aspects.
Massachusetts > Boston.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:viii, 532 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Struggles of Boston's black workers in the Civil War era
Format: Book

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Call Number: F73.44 .J66 2023
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