Image 376 of Federal Writers’ Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. This chapter argues that black women’s positions in slavery need more scholarship granted towards the topic to be able to adequately study the lives of African American women throughout slavery. Most accounts of which will be from interviews and or texts with authors who were enslaved, with other authors coming from more modern academic backgrounds.
Throughout this chapter, there will be an extensive analysis of the daily interactions of African American women in the Antebellum South during slavery, and how they navigated everyday life. The erasure of women’s experience in slavery provides limitations for understanding women’s position in both the private and public sectors during slavery in the Antebellum South. While this narrative is true and should be analyzed extensively to understand the true perceptions of enslaved persons, the narrative of women has largely been erased. All future studies of the black worker will have to take this book into account.13 The African American Women and Her Labor in Antebellum South Slaveryįor years, slavery, whether the narrative told domestically or internationally, has been told from a perspective that most regarded only men and the punishments they received. Huggins "A seminal work of scholarship, which has no rival in its subtle explication of the complex interface of work, sex, race and class. It is a major contribution to American social history and should be required reading for everyone who cares about the progress of justice and equality in America." - Coretta Scott King "Jacqueline Jones's excellent study takes us far into the implications of the broad social differences between the black and the white experiences in America." - Nathan I. In so doing she has turned an are light on several dark and unexplored corners." - Toni Morrison, The New York Times Book Review "A remarkable, inspiring work.which reveals important truths about our society.
Rather than simply looking at data, Miss Jones sees them.
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow exorcises several malignant stereotypes and stubborn myths, it is free of the sexism and racism it describes, and it interprets old data in new ways. Winner Of The Brown Publication Prize Of The Association Of Black Women Historians "Brilliant, bedrock scholarship crucial to our understanding of the crisis of the black family in the 1980's." - Los A Angeles Times "A valuable contribution.on several counts.
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