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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
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In Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, historian Jacqueline Jones offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women, lending a voice to an unsung struggle from the depths of slavery to the ongoing fight for civil rights.
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