Fight like a tiger : Conway Barbour and the challenges of the Black middle class in nineteenth-century America

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Harrison, Victoria L., author

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"Tracing Barbour's life and economic adventures across four states, the book finds a budding middle class that was both empowered and impatient for tangible evidence of its success. Barbour's exper...

"Tracing Barbour's life and economic adventures across four states, the book finds a budding middle class that was both empowered and impatient for tangible evidence of its success. Barbour's experiences reveal the obstacles facing people of color struggling to maintain a foothold in the middle class during the Civil War era"--

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