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Slavery, Sharecropping, And Sexual Inequality, Susan A. Mann
Slavery, Sharecropping, And Sexual Inequality, Susan A. Mann
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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.