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

Tera 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 master. W…

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