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

Publication Info.	New York : Basic Books, 2023.
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Edition	First edition.
Description	viii, 532 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-501) and index.
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	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. (OCoLC)fst00799610
	Labor. (OCoLC)fst00989798
	Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981
	Massachusetts -- Boston. (OCoLC)fst01205012
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Struggles of Boston's black workers in the Civil War era
ISBN	9781541619791 (hardcover)
	154161979X (hardcover)
	9781541619807 (epub)

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