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Author Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-

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

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1985]
©1985

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  305.4 JON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.4 J71    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.48 J77L    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents "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.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 406-415.
Subject African American women -- Employment -- History.
African American women -- History.
African American families -- History.
ISBN 0465037569: $29.95
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