Labor of love, labor of sorrow black women, work and the family, from slavery to the present / Jacqueline Jones.

Author/creator Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Basic Books,
Descriptionxvi, 440 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents "My mother was such a woman" : slavery, 1830-1860 -- Enslaved women becoming freedwomen : the Civil War and reconstruction -- "Bent backs and laboring muscles" : in the rural South, 1880-1915 -- Between the Southern cotton field and the Northern ghetto : the urban South, 1880-1915 -- "To get out of this land of sufring" : black women migrants to the North, 1900-1930 -- Harder times : the Great Depression -- The roots of two revolutions, 1940-1955 -- The struggle confirmed and transformed, 1955-1980 -- Crosscurrents of past and present, 1980-2009.
General noteRev. ed. of: Labor of love, labor of sorrow. 1985.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2009031903
ISBN9780465018819 (alk. paper)
ISBN0465018815 (alk. paper)