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Article

Publication Date

Summer 1989

Abstract

Focuses on black women's experiences in the transition from slavery to sharecropping in the South after the Civil War. Although the public and private domains of work became more differentiated, and a sexual division of labor in the home became more marked, the position of freedwomen nevertheless improved.

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http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174684

Published by University of Chicago Press

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