The ... Private Library of G.W. Hunter
Title | The ... Private Library of G.W. Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | George Washington Hunter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Private libraries |
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Catalogue of the Dante Collection Presented by Willard Fiske
Title | Catalogue of the Dante Collection Presented by Willard Fiske PDF eBook |
Author | Cornell University. Libraries |
Publisher | |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | |
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News Notes of California Libraries
Title | News Notes of California Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | California State Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN |
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Catalogue of the Dante Collection Additions 1898-1920
Title | Catalogue of the Dante Collection Additions 1898-1920 PDF eBook |
Author | Cornell University. Libraries |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Three Plays of Maureen Hunter
Title | Three Plays of Maureen Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Hunter, Maureen |
Publisher | OIBooks-Libros |
Pages | 944 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1896239994 |
Book is clean and tight. No writing in text. Like New
Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Ezra Wilkinson
Title | Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Ezra Wilkinson PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1030 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
To ÕJoy My Freedom
Title | To ÕJoy My Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Tera W. Hunter |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1998-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674893085 |
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 on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Hunter weaves a rich and diverse tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War south. Through anecdote and data, analysis and interpretation, she manages to penetrate African-American life and labor and to reveal the centrality of women at the inception--and at the heart--of the new south.