Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 / Rebecca Sharpless.

Cooking in other women's kitchens : domestic workers in the South, 1865-1960 / Rebecca Sharpless.

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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Main Author: Sharpless, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©[2010]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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African American women household employees > Southern States > History.
Women cooks > Southern States > Social conditions.
African American women > Southern States > Social conditions.
African American women.
African American women household employees.
History.
Race relations.
Social history.
Women cooks.
Business.
History
Social Conditions
Commerce
history (discipline)
social history.
business (commercial function)
Southern States > Race relations > History.
Southern States.
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