Published in the United States of America 1999 by
Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.
160 Broadway · New York, NY 10038

Copyright © 1979, 1999 by James Oliver Horton
and Lois E. Horton

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Horton James Oliver.

Black Bostonians : family life and community struggle in the
antebellum North / James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton. -- Rev.
ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8419-1379-X (hard cover: alk. paper). -- ISBN
0-8419-1380-3 (paperback: alk. paper)

1. Afro-Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Economic conditions.
2. Afro-Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions.
3. Afro-American families -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 4. Boston
( Mass.) -- Economic conditions. 5. Boston ( Mass.) -- Social conditions.
I. Horton, Lois E. II. Title.

F73.9.N4H67 1999
305.896074461-dc21 99-34883
CIP

Manufactured in the United States of America

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