To 'joy my freedom : Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War
In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter weaves a rich tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War South. Using a variety of sources, 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 masters
Print Book, English, 1998, ©1997
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1998, ©1997