To 'Joy My Freedom Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/1998
Description:
In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter weaves a rich tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War South. Using a variety of sources, Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. In the process she reveals the centrality of their labors to the American struggle for freedom and justice.
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