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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Jacqueline Jones
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Description for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Paperback. The Bancroft Prize-winning classic, now completely revised and updated Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 567.
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 labour of Love, labour of Sorrow , historian Jacqueline Jones offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women, lending a voice to an unsung struggle ... Read more
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 labour of Love, labour of Sorrow , historian Jacqueline Jones offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women, lending a voice to an unsung struggle ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
566g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465018819
SKU
V9780465018819
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About Jacqueline Jones
Jacqueline Jones is the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and the Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Saving Savannah, American Work, and The Dispossessed, she lives in Austin, Texas.
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