| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. By Eric Arnesen. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 332 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-674-00319-5.)

This book examines the experiences of black railroad workers from the late antebellum era through the modern civil rights movement. Eric Arnesen shows how blacks initially gained jobs as enslaved construction and maintenance workers and continued to work in the southern railroad industry through the Civil War years. With emancipation, southern railroad men stereotyped free black workers as unreliable but nonetheless hired growing numbers of black workers as wage laborers and prison workers under the notorious convict lease system. Although nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century blacks worked in such skilled jobs as fireman and brakeman, they nonetheless occupied the bottom rungs of the railroad labor force. . . .

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