Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century by Katzman, David M - 1973

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/good +. xii, 254, [2] p.: illustrations, tables, charts, maps; 23 cm. Black cloth with silver spine title. Dust jacket. Part of the publisher's series Blacks in the New World. "The first volume to explore a nineteenth-century urban black community in depth, Katzman's study of Detroit shows that although slavery was abolished in Michigan in 1837, racial distinctions remained in the law and a caste-like social system locked most blacks into an infoerior status." -- dust jacket. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: rubbed; slightly chipped at ends of spine; clean and solid.