To ’Joy My Freedom

Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War

Tera W. Hunter

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$31.00 • £24.95 • €28.00

ISBN 9780674893085

Publication Date: 09/15/1998

Short

336 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

15 halftones; 2 maps, 3 tables

World

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Tera W. Hunter is the Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Awards & Accolades

1998 H. L. Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association

1997 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians

1997 Book of the Year Award, International Labor History Association

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