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Beaten in a Baltimore Shipyard showed me that blacks were more skillful than the whites. The blacks were assigned to someone and had to listen to their every command. They were pulled in different directions to run small errands or just to give them a extra hand. I think the blacks were more skillful because they were like the "jack of all trades" when it came to building a ship. Even though they were assigned to someone, they still had to lend a hand elsewhere to someone who called upon them. -- Paul Kim | Beaten in a Baltimore Shipyard showed me that blacks were more skillful than the whites. The blacks were assigned to someone and had to listen to their every command. They were pulled in different directions to run small errands or just to give them a extra hand. I think the blacks were more skillful because they were like the "jack of all trades" when it came to building a ship. Even though they were assigned to someone, they still had to lend a hand elsewhere to someone who called upon them. -- Paul Kim | ||
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| + | Just a quick question since most of my points have already been made here. Were there ever cases of black workers attempting to strike for more rights, or were they too scared to do so? -Cash Nelson | ||
== Judith McGaw, Gender and Papermaking == | == Judith McGaw, Gender and Papermaking == | ||
