To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War

Discuss the challenge, which Hunter outlines in her preface, of writing the history of working-class African-American women. How does Hunter use her sources to overcome some of these challenges?

Compare and contrast the New South and the Old South. What role did African-American women’s labor play in the New South?

Upon what resources and strengths did working-class black women rely to organize the washerwomen’s strike?