Labor of love, labor of sorrow: Black women, work, and the family from slavery to the present

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter

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• Acknowledgments (page xi)

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• Introduction (page 3)

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• 1. "My Mother Was Much of a Woman": Slavery (page 11)

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• 2. Freed Women? The Civil War and Reconstruction (page 44)

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• 3. A Bridge of "Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles": The Rural South, 1880-1915 (page 79)

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• 4. Between the Cotton Field and the Ghetto: The Urban South, 1880-1915 (page 110)

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• 5. "To Get Out of This Land of Sufring": Black Women Migrants to the North, 1900-1930 (page 152)

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• 6. Harder Times: The Great Depression (page 196)

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• 7. The Roots of Two Revolutions, 1940-1955 (page 232)

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• 8. The Struggle Confirmed and Transformed, 1955-1980 (page 275)

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• Epilogue: 1984 (page 322)

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• Appendices (page 331)

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• Notes (page 343)

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• Selected Bibliography (page 406)

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• Index (page 416)

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