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To 'joy my freedom: southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War
Hunter, Tera W.
Year: 1997.
Publisher:  Harvard University Press. 
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Frontmatter
Preface
Prologue
CHAPTER ONE "Answering Bells Is Played Out": Slavery and the Civil War
CHAPTER TWO Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom
CHAPTER THREE Working-Class Neighborhoods and Everyday Life
CHAPTER FOUR "Washing Amazons" and Organized Protests
CHAPTER FIVE The "Color Line" Gives Way to the "Color Wall"
CHAPTER SIX Survival and Social Welfare in the Age of Jim Crow
CHAPTER SEVEN "Wholesome" and "Hurtful" Amusements
CHAPTER EIGHT "Dancing and Carousing the Night Away"
CHAPTER NINE Tuberculosis as the "Negro Servants' Disease"
CHAPTER TEN "'Looking or a Free State to Live In"
Tables
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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Title: To 'joy my freedom : southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War Tera W. Hunter.
Author: Hunter, Tera W
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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Source Version: To 'joy my freedom : southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War Tera W. Hunter. 
Hunter, Tera W
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01712
Subject Headings: • 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
• African American women -- Employment -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 19th century
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