September 15th, 2011 at 8:02AM
Most women spent a good deal of their lives plowing, hoeing, and picking cotton. In the fields the notion of a distinctive ‘women’s work’ vanished as slaveholders realized that ‘women can do plowing very well & full well with the hoes and [are] equal to men at picking.’ — Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow by Jacqueline Jones (page 15)

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