[PDF.84bt] To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War

To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War

[PDF.rs91] To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War

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 | #485651 in Books |  1998-09-15 |  1998-07-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.84 x6.13l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 322 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Oh dear.|By mary k. wakeman|I really wanted to like this book because of the subject, and the carefully researched information it contained. But I had a very hard time reading it because of the style of writing. It read more like an academic dissertation, where the author has to prove him/herself competent by martialing all the relevant data, at the expense of telling a story|.com |The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 might have signaled the end of slavery, but the beginning of freedom remained far out of sight for most of the four million enslaved African Americans living in the South. Even after the Civil War, when thousands of f

As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta--the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south--in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War   |  Tera W. Hunter. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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