Fight Like a Tiger
Subtitle: Conway Barbour and the Challenges of the Black Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: Oct 22, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780809336777
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Fight Like a Tiger: Conway Barbour and the Challenges of the Black Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century America