Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North by James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton

Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North

James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton

198 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Hortons challenged the then widely held view that African Americans in the antebellum urban north were all trapped in "a culture of poverty." Exploring life in black Boston from the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, they combine...

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