Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women , Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
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.\ In Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, historian...
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The Bancroft Prize-winning classic, now completely revised and updated
Acknowledgments for the 1985 Edition ixPreface to the New Edition xiiiIntroduction 11 "My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Slavery, 1830-1860 92 Enslaved Women Becoming Freedwomen: The Civil War and Reconstruction 433 "Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles": in the Rural South, 1880-1915 774 Between the Southern Cotton Field and the Northern Ghetto: the Urban South, 1880-1915 1035 "To Get Out of this Land of Sufring": Black Women Migrants to the North, 1900-1930 1316 Harder Times: The Great Depression 1637 The Roots of Two Revolutions, 1940-1955 1958 The Struggle Confirmed and Transformed, 1955-1980 2299 Crosscurrents of Past and Present, 1980-2009 267Appendices 299Notes 313Bibliography 371Index 421
