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African American Urban History Boston Black Community Study In Freedom's Birthplace and Early Sociological Analysis 1914

1914réf. 206801914. Daniels John. In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes 1914 presents an early twentieth century sociological examination of African American life in Boston grounded in extended field research and community engagement. Written by a social reformer affiliated with settlement work and urban social service institutions the study compiles nearly a decade of observation and consultation with Black Bostonians to document demographic patterns labor conditions class structure and institutional affiliations. The work situates Boston's Black population within a longer historical trajectory beginning with emancipation in Massachusetts in 1781 and continuing through the development of a free Black community closely tied to abolitionist activity in the nineteenth century providing a substantial empirical record for the study of race urban life and reform era social science. Daniels John. In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1914. First edition. One volume. The text is organized in part through historical and analytical chapters with early sections addressing the formation of racial attitudes and subsequent chapters presenting data on employment property ownership and social organization including religious and political institutions. Daniels draws upon interviews local records and collaboration with numerous members of Boston's African American community whom he acknowledges collectively in the preface. Produced during the Progressive Era the study reflects contemporaneous efforts to apply social scientific methods to questions of race inequality and urban reform. Its detailed statistical and descriptive approach contributes to the broader development of American sociology and provides a foundation for examining the relationship between Black community formation and northern urban environments in the decades before the Great Migration. Minor edge wear to covers and spine ends; pencil inscription on front endpaper dated 1917; overall very good condition. unknown