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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

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

Jones, Jacqueline

Paperback

General United States HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0465018815
ISBN13: 9780465018819
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 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.

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