{"product_id":"9780841913790","title":"Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the AnteBellum North","description":"Updated and expanded in this revised edition to reflect twenty years of new research, when published in 1979 \u003ci\u003eBlack Bostonians\u003c\/i\u003e was the first comprehensive social history of an antebellum northern black community. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Hortons challenged the then widely held view that African Americans in the antebellum urban north were all trapped in \"a culture of poverty.\" Exploring life in black Boston from the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, they combined quantitative and traditional historical methods to reveal the rich fabric of a thriving society, where people from all walks of life organized for mutual aid, survival, and social action, and which was a center of the antislavery movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProfile of Black Boston.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFamilies and Households in Black Boston.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFormal and Informal Organizations and Associations.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Community and the Church.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLeaders and Community Activists.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSegregation, Discrimination, and Community Resistance.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Integration of Abolition.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Fugitive and the Community.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA Decade of Militancy.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Holmes \u0026 Meier Publishers, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008599605488,"sku":"9780841913790","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780841913790_p0.jpg?v=1763810022","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780841913790","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}