We have updated our Privacy Policy Please take a moment to review it. By continuing to use this site, you agree to the terms of our updated Privacy Policy.

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Read Excerpt Glasses Icon Icon of eye glasses over an open book

Request Desk/Exam Copy Academic Icon Academic icon

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

by Jacqueline Jones

Regular Price $24.99

Regular Price $31.99 CAD

Trade Paperback
ebook
Trade Paperback
ebook

Regular Price $24.99

Regular Price $31.99 CAD

Also Available From:

Buy Now:

Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million Bookshop Target Walmart

On Sale

Dec 29, 2009

Page Count

480 Pages

Publisher

ISBN-13

9780465018819

Genre

Nonfiction / History / United States / General

Description

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

In Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, historian Jacqueline Jones offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women, lending a voice to an unsung struggle from the depths of slavery to the ongoing fight for civil rights.