TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Jacqueline
TI  - No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era 
SN  - 9781541619791
AV  - F73.44 .J66 2023
U1  - 974.4/6100496073 23/eng/20220706
PY  - 0000///June 252024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Employment
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Boston
KW  - History
KW  - Free Black people
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Fugitive slaves
KW  - Working class African Americans
KW  - Labor
KW  - Boston (Mass.)
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Cataloged 1/27/23 dc; new book 2024 summer; Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-501) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -