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Title The black worker to 1869 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present ; volume 1
Black worker ; v. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: Black labor in the old south. Blacks in the crafts and industries of the old south ; Slave craftsman in America ; Industrial slavery ; Hiring-out of slave mechanics Self-purchase by slave mechanics ; A slave mechanic's escape to freedom ; Occupations of free blacks in the south -- Part II: Race relations in old southern industries. The debate over the use of free or slave mechanics ; Petitions and protests of white mechanics against black mechanics ; Free black workers and the law ; Labor violence in black and white ; Observations on race relations -- Part III: Free black labor in the north. Northern free black occupations ; Discrimination against free black workers in the north -- Part IV: Living conditions and race relations in the north. Pauperism ; Colorphobia ; White abolitionists and jobs for free blacks ; Anti-black labor riots ; Northern free black kidnapped and sold into slavery -- Part V: Black workers in specific trades. Free black waiters ; Black seamen ; Black caulkers -- Part VI: The free black workers' response to oppression. Free black uplift : unions, cooperatives, conventions, schools ; Integrate or separate? -- Part VII: The northern black worker during the Civil War. The worsening status of free black workers in the north ; Anti-Negro riots in New York City ; Blacks in the Union Army and Navy ; White northerners anticipate the addition of ex-slaves to the labor force -- Part VIII: Condition of the worker during early Reconstruction. Reconstruction in the south ; Labor discontent in the south ; Condition of black workers in the north during Reconstruction -- Part IX: Exclusion of blacks from white unions during early Reconstruction. Race discrimination in the Cooper's Union, 1868 ; Lewis H. Douglas and the Typographical Union ; Exclusion of blacks from other unions -- Part X: The demand for equality. White labor and black labor : the black viewpoint ; A white labor voice for black equality -- Part XI: Black response to colorphobia. The National Labor Union and black labor, 1866-1869 ; 1869 Convention of the National Labor Union ; The first black labor leader : Isaac Myers, the Baltimore caulkers, and the colored trade unions of Maryland.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject African Americans -- Employment.
African Americans -- Employment.
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
United States -- Race relations.
United States.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994, editor.
Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Black worker to 1869. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1978 0877221367 (OCoLC)5653387
ISBN 9781439917664 (electronic book)
1439917663 (electronic book)
0877221367
9780877221364