Labor of love, labor of sorrow : black women, work and the family, from slavery to the present /
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
©2010
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Table of Contents:
- "My mother was much of a woman" : slavery, 1830-1860
- Enslaved women becoming freedwomen : the Civil War and Reconstruction
- "Bent backs and laboring muscles" : in the rural South, 1880-1915
- Between the Southern cotton field and the Northern 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
- Crosscurrents of past and present, 1980-2009