Table of Contents

1. Approaching the facts; 2. The people; 3. The people at work, 1865–1880; 4. The people at work, 1880–1914; 5. The fruits of their labours; 6. Overview and interpretation.

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Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy, 1865–1914 is a reinterpretation of black economic history in the half-century after Emancipation.