Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

by Jacqueline Jones

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The Bancroft Prize-winning classic, now completely revised and updated

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Jacqueline Jones

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Jacqueline Jones is the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and the Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of Saving Savannah, American Work, and The Dispossessed, she lives in Austin, Texas.

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Pulitzer Prize (Finalist – History – 1986)

Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award (1985)

Bancroft Prize (1986)

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (1985)

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Canonical title: Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family, from Slavery to the Present

by Jacqueline Jones

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