To 'joy my freedom : Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War / Tera W. Hunter.
Hunter, Tera W.
1997
HD6057.5.U52 G45 1997 (Mapit)
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Title To 'joy my freedom : Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War / Tera W. Hunter.
Author Hunter, Tera W.
ISBN 9780674893085 (paperback)
0674893085 (paperback)
9780674893092
0674893093
Publication Details Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Language English
Description ix, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number HD6057.5.U52 G45 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.4/089/960730758231
Summary Tera Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former master. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we see the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-295) and index.
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