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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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Main Author: Sharpless, Rebecca, (Author)
Corporate Authors: Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania), Joanna Banks Collection of African American Cookbooks (University of Pennsylvania), Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Format: Book
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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CHR 2010
PRO Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
African American women household employees > Southern States > History.
Women cooks > Southern States > Social conditions.
African American women > Southern States > Social conditions.
Southern States > Race relations > History.
Southern States.
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Call Number: HD6072.2.U52 S574 2010
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