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 Free Download Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, "Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940" English | ISBN: 1588342867 | 2010 | 256 pages | EPUB | 10 MB This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, DC in the early decades of the twentieth century. In Living In, Living Out Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of eighty-one women who worked for wealthy white families. These women describe how they encountered-but never accepted-the master-servant relationship, and recount their struggles to change their status from "live in" servants to daily paid workers who "lived out." |
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