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

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"Impassioned antislavery activists, writers, and orators made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's hub of radical abolitionism. For its Black workers, however, Boston was far from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an Honest Living, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jacqueline Jones o...

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Main Author: Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
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.
Boston (Mass.) > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
Noirs américains > Travail > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire.
Personnes noires affranchies > Massachusetts > Boston > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Esclaves fugitifs > Massachusetts > Boston > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Travailleurs noirs américains > Massachusetts > Boston > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Travail > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
African Americans > Employment
Labor
Social aspects
Massachusetts > Boston
United States
1800-1899
History
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Words are easy"
  • Prelude : The Edloe sixty-six
  • Part I : 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
  • Part II : 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"
  • Part III : 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.