No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones

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

Jacqueline Jones

544 pages hardcover 2023

5 editions

nonfiction history race medium-paced
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 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 th...

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