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To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War Tera W. Hunter
To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War
Tera W. Hunter
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, she 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.
322 pages, 15 halftones; 2 maps, 3 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 15, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674893085 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 336 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 159 × 23 mm · 376 g |
| Language | English |