Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North

by James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton

Book by Horton, James Oliver, Horton, Lois E.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

198 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 1979

Reviews

[Rohma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely refreshing and coherent. Incorporates sociological data without overwhelming historical arguments.

[Geoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

First published in 1979 and revised in 1999. Interesting foundational work. Brings to light many individual African Americans who lived and worked in Boston. Looks at the North End and Beacon Hill Communities. The weight lies on a sociological kind of reading of the important census materials they look at. Some of them assumptions are dated. Mostly good insights regarding the relationships between communities of African Americans from various socio-economic statuses.

[Kameel Nasr · Rating 3 out of 5]

New England has been slow to acknowledge its participation in the slave trade. I got this book at the African-American museum in Boston, and although you need to be a history buff to read it, the book is an important contribution to the detailed history of families and communities here.
Kameel Nasr is author of The Symphony Heist

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative but dry.