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HISTORY/PRACTICE<br />
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Tracing the Legacy of Slavery<br />
Melanie Wang, Massachusetts<br />
Wh<strong>at</strong> should be included in this guide?<br />
A list of books and/or scholars who examine<br />
the rel<strong>at</strong>ionship between anti-<strong>Black</strong> racism,<br />
class struggle, and the legacy of slavery in<br />
the United St<strong>at</strong>es.<br />
Two examples th<strong>at</strong> immedi<strong>at</strong>ely come to<br />
mind are Out of the House of Bondage, by<br />
Thavolia Glymph, and Labor of Love, Labor<br />
of Sorrow, by Jacqueline Jones.<br />
The former focuses on the rel<strong>at</strong>ionships<br />
between mistresses and household slaves in<br />
Southern plant<strong>at</strong>ion slavery, and details how<br />
constructions of race and gender played<br />
important roles in the subjug<strong>at</strong>ion of female<br />
slaves.<br />
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, also begins<br />
in the era of plant<strong>at</strong>ion slavery but moves all<br />
the way through history to the present. It<br />
focuses on the experiences of <strong>Black</strong> women<br />
in the labor force over the course of U.S.<br />
history.
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