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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 14, 2023
Most of us have long been taught that during the Civil War, the North was the “good” to the South’s “bad” and the place to go for our people’s freedom and prosperity. But in her latest book, NO RIGHT TO AN HONEST LIVING: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era, eminent historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize
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