The black worker to 1869 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis.
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Black worker ;
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Table of 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.