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No Right to an Honest Living - The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era (Hardcover)
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No Right to an Honest Living - The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era (Hardcover)
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From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers
and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned
antislavery rhetoric made antebellum Boston famous as the nation's
hub of radical abolitionism. In fact, however, the city was far
from a beacon of equality. In No Right to an Honest Living,
historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States
writ small: a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism
was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive. Before, during,
and after the Civil War, white abolitionists and Republicans
refused to secure equal employment opportunity for Black
Bostonians, condemning most of them to poverty. Still, Jones finds,
some Black entrepreneurs ingeniously created their own jobs and
forged their own career paths. Highlighting the everyday struggles
of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the
workplace prevented Boston-and the United States-from securing true
equality for all.
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