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Labor of love, labor of sorrow : Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present
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- Creator
- Jacqueline Jones
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Basic Books, [1985]
- ©1985
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780465021109, 0465021107, 9780394745367, 0394745361, 9780465037568, 0465037569
- OCLC
- ocn563872640, ocm11399213
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 406-415.
- "My mother was much of a woman": slavery -- Freed women? The Civil War and reconstruction -- A bridge of "bent backs and laboring muscles": the rural south, 1880-1915 -- Between the cotton field and the 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
Subjects
- African American families -- History.
- African American women -- Employment -- History.
- African American women -- History.
- Black or African American -- history -- United States.
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- Employment -- history -- United States.
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- Family -- history -- United States.
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- Women -- history -- United States.
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