# Event Details - **Event Name**: Why Were There No Black Machine Operatives in 19th Cent. NE Textile Mills? - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 12 Dec, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Sat, 12 Dec, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: presented by Jacqueline Jones Professor of History Emerita at the University of Texas at AustinAbout this EventMill Talk: Why Were There No Black Machine Operatives in 19th Century New England Textile Mills?In the antebellum South, textile mill operators relied on enslaved workers for their machine operatives. However, during this period, New England textile mills employed only white men, women and children, in the process denying Black people the opportunity to earn hourly wages rather than serve as farm hands or domestic servants. What accounts for the racial division of labor in the industrializing North? And given the low pay and long hours of mill work, why is it significant that Blacks were excluded from this industry? Key to those answers is the failure of potential white allies to advocate for the opportunities of Black workers. In Boston, those potential allies included white abolitionists, labor activists, city officials, military veterans, Republican politicians, and Progressive reformers.Jacqueline Jones is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of, among other works, American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor and No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Black Workers in the Civil War Era, which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for History. She served as president of the American Historical Association in 2021. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/waltham/why-were-there-no-black-machine-operatives-in-19th-cent-ne-textile-mills/100002001070942055 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Waltham - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation - **lat**: 42.372984 - **long**: -71.23400200000003 - **full address**: Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, 154 Moody Street, Waltham, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Why Were There No Black Machine Operatives in 19th Cent. NE Textile Mills? - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/b2dbc0f564cfa1fcffc1ce9ad43510cce4c2bba90ae6de614acf2503c9708121-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf8f8f8-gmir.jpg?v=1790067784 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Why Were There No Black Machine Operatives in 19th Cent. NE Textile Mills? being held? - **A:** Why Were There No Black Machine Operatives in 19th Cent. NE Textile Mills? takes place on Sat, 12 Dec, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Sat, 12 Dec, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation, 154 Moody Street, Waltham, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Why Were There No Black Machine Operatives in 19th Cent. NE Textile Mills?? - **A:** Why Were There No Black Machine Operatives in 19th Cent. NE Textile Mills? is organized by Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Why Were There No Black Machine Operatives in 19th Cent. 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