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, often fleeing plantations under threat of capture. Black women, caught between the threats of war and re-enslavement on the plantation, were on the front lines of ending slavery.
After the Civil War, many Black women were forced to reenter the homes of white families in service, much like the era of slavery. University of Texas at Austin professor of history Jacqueline Jones explains in her bookthat, “unlike sharecroppers, black urban women had to rely almost exclusively on wage labor in order to provide for their families or supplement their husbands’ income.
Working conditions were difficult. Jones says that Black women often struggled with long hours, traveling great distances from their own homes and families for work, and many of the jobs they were expected to complete featured the “trappings of slavery.” “Maids” were charged with odd jobs around the house regardless of their expertise. “Cooks” might find themselves watching children.
The conditions Black women faced, and the wages they made, were frequently at white women’s discretion. Jones notes, “The white mistress served as both the owner of an establishment and manager of her own workers...She could either resign herself to her workers’ inadequacies or search for new ones—an almost universal dilemma among exasperated Victorian mistresses.”Another ugly reality that existed during slavery also loomed over the domestic household: the threat of sexual assault.
Black women’s labor wasn’t only undercut in domestic service — even those in other roles faced discrimination. The Oscar-nominated film, based on the popular book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, tells the story of Black woman scientists, mathematicians, and engineers at NASA who, in the mid-20th century, were critical in launching John Glenn, the first American man to orbit the earth, into space.
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