Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women , Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present » (Second Edition)

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.

The Bancroft Prize-winning classic, now completely revised and updated

Acknowledgments for the 1985 Edition ix

Preface to the New Edition xiii

Introduction 1

1 "My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Slavery, 1830-1860 9

2 Enslaved Women Becoming Freedwomen: The Civil War and Reconstruction 43

3 "Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles": in the Rural South, 1880-1915 77

4 Between the Southern Cotton Field and the Northern Ghetto: the Urban South, 1880-1915 103

5 "To Get Out of this Land of Sufring": Black Women Migrants to the North, 1900-1930 131

6 Harder Times: The Great Depression 163

7 The Roots of Two Revolutions, 1940-1955 195

8 The Struggle Confirmed and Transformed, 1955-1980 229

9 Crosscurrents of Past and Present, 1980-2009 267

Appendices 299

Notes 313

Bibliography 371

Index 421