No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era - Paperback

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No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
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No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era - Paperback

No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era - Paperback

by Jacqueline Jones
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by Jacqueline Jones (Author)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - A "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of labor history and urban history" (Tiya Miles, National Book Award-winning author of All That She Carried)

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 Pulitzer Prize-winning book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston--and the United States--from securing true equality for all.

Author Biography

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, she lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Number of Pages: 544
Dimensions: 1.5 x 8 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: January 07, 2025
ISBN9781541607026
Author Jacqueline Jones
PublisherBasic Books
GenreNews & politics and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages544
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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