What Does the Plight of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era Tell Us About Contemporary American Struggles?
Jacqueline Jones in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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In this episode, Andrew is joined by Jacqueline Jones, the author of No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era.
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Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple Professor of Women’s History Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin and the past president of the American Historical Association. Winner of the Bancroft Prize for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow and a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, she lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
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