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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: From her own labor: African-American laboring women in New York City, 1827--1877 Abstract: My study illustrates the unique role that African-American laboring women played in nineteenth-century New York City and also depicts how they developed strategies that contributed to the survival of the black community. My dissertation provides an analysis of the ways that African-American women defined themselves in relation to New York's black community, the female population of the metropolis. and the city's labor force. African-American women comprised a majority of the city's black population and they carried special burdens as a result of their race, class, and gender. One of the heaviest burdens was the double shift that these women often worked. earning money to support their families during the day and serving as housewives each night. Moreover, women of color toiled in the least desirable and worst paid positions at a time when most free blacks struggled to eke out an existence. In addition to their position in the economic sphere, African-American women also participated in social and political movements as members of churches, mutual aid societies, and abolition organizations. Due to the efforts of these women, African Americans forged a strong community in the city of New York. The strength of this community helped it to withstand discrimination as well as racial violence in the form of the New York City Draft Riot. the bloodiest riot in American history. |
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