Tera Hunter, Princeton University

Department of History Professor Princeton, New Jersey thunter@princeton.edu Office: (609) 258-8904

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19th century African-American marriages History of African American labor in South History of African American women in South History of slavery Labor history Narratives about marriage and obtaining freedom Race Southern 19th-century African American history United States history

Bio/Research

Tera W. Hunter is a professor in the History Department and the Center for African-American Studies who specializes in African-American history and gender in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her research has focused on African American women and labor in the South during that period. Her first book, To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War, focuses on the experiences of working-class women, especially domestic workers, in Atlanta and other southern cities from Reconstruction through the 1920s. Michael Honey in his review in the American Historical Review called it a “triumph of research, astute analysis, and engaging imagination that deserves to be widely read by students of African-American, labor, and women’s studies and of American history.”

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