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‘Following The Line Of Least Resistance’: African American Women In Domestic Work, 1899–1940, Taylor Simsovic

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

This paper examines the challenges faced by African American women employed in domestic service between 1899 and 1940, with a focus on how race, class, and gender intersected to shape their experiences. Specifically, the study investigates how these women continued to perform reproductive labor as they migrated from the South to Northern states during the Great Migration. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, the analysis argues that Black women's persistent employment in undervalued labor within white American homes was driven by the mutually constitutive systems of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. These systems channeled Black women into …

Waddie Welcome Collection, Zach S. Henderson Library Special Collections

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This collection consists of approximately 668 photograph slides taken by Tom Kohler and Susan Earl from 2006 to 2009. The subjects of the slides include artwork by Waddie Welcome in the Savannah area. Also included in the collection are CD disks and print photographs that supplement the materials found on the slides.

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