Workers on Arrival

Black Labor in the Making of America Joe William Trotter, Jr.

JANUARY 2019

In this engrossing and vital new history, Joe William Trotter, Jr. charts the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia to reveal black workers’ vast contributions to the making of America. Workers on Arrival expands our understanding of America’s economic and industrial growth, its cities, ideas, and institutions, and the real challenges confronting black urban communities today.