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...influx, mostly from the American South and the distant West Indies, was not exactly well received. Historian S.B. Sutton reports that theCambridge Chroniclebegan to fill its humor columns with jokes about Blacks, usually depicting them as "childlike and slow-witted." Because "the color of their skin set them apart from all other members of the community, they gathered in tight districts in Cambridgeport," Sutton reports. Those who could afford good homes lived by Howard St.; more commonly, their residences were rickety old shacks on former marshland by the Charles...
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