Rev. ed. of: Labor of love, labor of sorrow. 1985.

"My mother was such a woman" : slavery, 1830-1860 -- Enslaved women becoming freedwomen : the Civil War and reconstruction -- "Bent backs and laboring muscles" : in the rural South, 1880-1915 -- Between the Southern cotton field and the Northern ghetto : the urban South, 1880-1915 -- "To get out of this land of sufring" : black women migrants to the North, 1900-1930 -- Harder times : the Great Depression -- The roots of two revolutions, 1940-1955 -- The struggle confirmed and transformed, 1955-1980 -- Crosscurrents of past and present, 1980-2009.