TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - To 'joy my freedom :Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War /
DA  - 1997.
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
AU  - Hunter, Tera W.
CN  - HD6057.5.U52
CN  - HD6057.5.U52
PB  - Harvard University Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - 1997.
ID  - 809015
KW  - African American women
KW  - African American women
KW  - African American women
KW  - African American women
SN  - 9780674893085
SN  - 0674893085
SN  - 9780674893092
SN  - 0674893093
TI  - To 'joy my freedom :Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War /
ER  -