No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) - The Struggles of Bostons Black Workers in the Civil War Era

"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"--

About the author

Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Professor of Women’s History Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin and the past president of the American Historical Association. Winner of the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow and a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, she lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Summary

From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston

Foreword

From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Jones
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.01.2023
• EAN: 9781541619791
• ISBN: 978-1-5416-1979-1
• No. of pages: 544
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), c 1800 to c 1900, Local History, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, History of the Americas, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast: New England