Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the PresentThe forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common purpose with wives and mothers of all classes. In Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, historian Jacqueline Jones offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women, lending a voice to an unsung struggle from the depths of slavery to the ongoing fight for civil rights. |
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... organizational gaffes. The reference, circulation, and interlibrary departments at the Wellesley library managed to track down many obscure sources and helped me locate missing ones, including books I had forgotten were checked out to ...
... organizational gaffes. The reference, circulation, and interlibrary departments at the Wellesley library managed to track down many obscure sources and helped me locate missing ones, including books I had forgotten were checked out to ...
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... organization varied in the other staple-crop economies—tobacco in the upper South, rice along the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, and sugar in Louisiana. The task system characteristic of low-country rice cultivation granted slave ...
... organization varied in the other staple-crop economies—tobacco in the upper South, rice along the coast of Georgia and South Carolina, and sugar in Louisiana. The task system characteristic of low-country rice cultivation granted slave ...
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... organization over gang labor becomes apparent when viewed in a national context. The industrial North was increasingly coming to rely on workers who had yielded to employers all power over their working conditions. In contrast ...
... organization over gang labor becomes apparent when viewed in a national context. The industrial North was increasingly coming to rely on workers who had yielded to employers all power over their working conditions. In contrast ...
Contents
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Three | 77 |
Four | 103 |
Five | 131 |
Six | 163 |
Seven | 195 |
Nine | 267 |
Appendix A | 299 |
Appendix B | 301 |
Appendix C | 305 |
Notes | 313 |
Bibliography | 371 |
Index | 421 |
Eight | 229 |
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