To 'joy My Freedom Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War

Annotation In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter weaves a rich tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War South. Hunter follows African-American working women from their new-found optimism at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. 15 photos.