Amistad: 384 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. After Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era marked a period of dramatic change for African Americans, particularly those migrating north in search of jobs and other opportunities. Advances in the social, economic and political arenas continued to be stymied, however, by racism. ,” Ladee Hubbard zeroes in on a group of Black servants in a well-to-do home in Washington, D.C.; then she pans out to the city streets, illustrating ...