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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens : Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960 /

As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping south...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharpless, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:As African American women left slavery and the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed in white employers' homes, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469606323