| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Christopher Robert Reed. Black Chicago's First Century: Volume 1, 1833–1900. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 582. $49.95.

During the nineteenth century, Chicago grew from a frontier trading post to become America's second city. Its growth was shaped by the hard work of an ethnically diverse population struggling to deal with the complexities of urbanization even as they sought to find their footing on new ground. That story, writ large, is similar to the one Christopher Robert Reed reconstructs in this book. But the devil, as they say, is in the details. The difference, as Reed argues, is that although African Americans had the oldest claim on the settlement of Chicago, their quest to attain first-class status took much longer to achieve than that of most other groups.

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