Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

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.

Author: Jacqueline Jones
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9780465018819
ISBN10: 0465018815
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | General
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author
Jacqueline Jones is the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and the Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Saving Savannah, American Work, and The Dispossessed, she lives in Austin, Texas.