To 'joy my freedom : Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War / Tera W. Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Tera W.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Employment--Georgia--Atlanta--History--19th century.

African American women.

African American women--Employment--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.

African American women--Georgia--Atlanta--History--19th century.

African American women--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century.

History.

African American women--Employment.

Georgia--Atlanta.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 311 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 14 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1997.

Summary:

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 from the rubble of their enslaved past. This book traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. 15 halftone illustrations. 2 maps. 3 tables.

Contents:

"Answering Bells Is Played Out": Slavery and the Civil War

Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom

Working-Class Neighborhoods and Everyday Life

"Washing Amazons" and Organized Protests

The "Color Line" Gives Way to the "Color Wall"

Survival and Social Welfare in the Age of Jim Crow

"Wholesome" and "Hurtful" Amusements

"Dancing and Carousing the Night Away"

Tuberculosis as the "Negro Servants' Disease"

"Looking for a Free State to Live In."

Notes:

"Jacket illustration Jacob Lawrence, 'Ironers,' Courtesy of the artist ... Design Annamarie McMahon."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-295) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

Storage copy signed by Sheldon Hackney in front.

Storage copy has MS. notes by Sheldon Hackney at end.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0674893093

OCLC:

36024077