No Right to An Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

by Jacqueline Jones

The Pulitzer Prize jury declared this book to be a “breathtakingly original reconstruction of free Black life in Boston that profoundly reshapes our understanding of the city’s abolitionist legacy and the challenging reality for its Black residents.” The author, Jacqueline Jones, previously won the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, a study of the pressures faced by Black women even after the abolition of slavery.