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And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common purpose with wives and mothers of all classes. 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. The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Crosscurrents of past and present, 1980-2009.

The struggle confirmed and transformed, 1955-1980.

The roots of two revolutions, 1940-1955.

"To get out of this land of sufring" : black women migrants to the North, 1900-1930.

Between the Southern cotton field and the Northern ghetto : the urban South, 1880-1915.

"Bent backs and laboring muscles" : in the rural South, 1880-1915.

Enslaved women becoming freedwomen : the Civil War and reconstruction.

"My mother was such a woman" : slavery, 1830-1860.

All future studies of the black worker will have to take this book into account.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. Huggins "A seminal work of scholarship, which has no rival in its subtle explication of the complex interface of work, sex, race and class.

It is a major contribution to American social history and should be required reading for everyone who cares about the progress of justice and equality in America." - Coretta Scott King "Jacqueline Jones's excellent study takes us far into the implications of the broad social differences between the black and the white experiences in America." - Nathan I.

In so doing she has turned an are light on several dark and unexplored corners." - Toni Morrison, The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable, inspiring work.which reveals important truths about our society. Rather than simply looking at data, Miss Jones sees them. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow exorcises several malignant stereotypes and stubborn myths, it is free of the sexism and racism it describes, and it interprets old data in new ways. Winner Of The Brown Publication Prize Of The Association Of Black Women Historians "Brilliant, bedrock scholarship crucial to our understanding of the crisis of the black family in the 1980's." - Los A Angeles Times "A valuable contribution.on several counts.