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Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860 book cover

1st Edition

Black Boston African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860

By George Levesque Copyright 1994
558 Pages
by Routledge

558 Pages
by Routledge

558 Pages
by Routledge
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Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in... Read more

List of Tables/Maps

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Social Composition

1. "They Cannot Thrive Among Us"

2. "Sustained Very Evidently by Means of Emigration

Part II: The Color Line

3. "Is Boston Anti-Slavery?"

4. "Complexional Distinctions"

5. "The Cause of Equal School Privileges"

6. "That Separate Schools May Be Abolished"

7. "Privileges and Immunities of Citizens"

Part III: Life in the Ghetto

8. "Colored Churches. Is There Any Necessity for Their Existence?"

9. "Colored People Assuming A Position Independent of Their Pale-Face Brethren"

Part IV: Pathology of the Ghetto

10. "Crime is Not All Owing to One Cause"

11. "No Other Class Struggles for a Livelihood Under So Many Disadvantages"

12. "Facts of a Deeply Deadly Nature"

Conclusion

Appendices

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Levesque, George

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