Black Boston
Black Boston

Author: George A. Levesque

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1351180584

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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 our understanding of the formative years of black life in urban America. Black culture Levesque argues was both more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally benevolent, sometimes hostile, frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.

New York State Library [annual Report]
New York State Library [annual Report]

Author: New York State Library

Publisher:

Published: 1861

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.

Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880
Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880

Author: Oscar Handlin

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780674079861

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Examines the lives of immigrants in Boston from 1790 to 1880, discussing the process of arrival in the city, the physical and economic adjustment, the development of group consciousness, hostility toward the Irish, and the city's eventual relative stability.

The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts
The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts

Author: Amber D. Moulton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2015-04-06

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0674967623

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Though Massachusetts banned slavery in 1780, prior to the Civil War a law prohibiting marriage between whites and blacks reinforced the state’s racial caste system. Amber Moulton recreates an unlikely collaboration of reformers who sought to rectify what they saw as an indefensible injustice, leading to the legalization of interracial marriage.