Waubonsee Community College

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

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-415) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Labor of love, labor of sorrow

bibliography

11399213

Jacqueline Jones

Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present

An historical study of the roles of Black women examines the weight of racial prejudice and sexual discrimination on the dual responsibilities of Black women as bread winners and guardians of family and community stability

"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