Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

Name: Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
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ISBN: 9780465018819

ISBN-10: 0465018815

ISBN-13: 9780465018819

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Jacqueline Jones

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The 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.InLabor 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.

Book details

List price: $31.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 12/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.13" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments for the 1985 Edition


Preface to the New Edition


Introduction



"My Mother Was Much of 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


Appendices


Notes


Bibliography


Index