''Brimming with insight, prickly about assumptions too easily arrived at in earlier literature, briskly and pointedly written... A valuable intervention in the critical debate over the transition from slavery to freedom in the American South.'' -- Stephanie McCurry, author of Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country ''This compelling, well-documented work offers us an intriguing look at a particular group of black women and their struggles to work for themselves and their communities on their own terms. Clearly, it makes a significant contribution to Civil War and Reconstruction-era historiography.''--Jacqueline Jones, author of The Dispossessed: America's Underclass from the Civil War to the Present
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