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Girls as Domestic Workers
From slavery to Jim Crow, African American girls worked in fields and in homes. Girls found themselves serving families and becoming lifelong nursemaids and domestic workers.
Girls as young as three carried heavy babies, scrubbed dirty diapers, and stayed up late to mend clothing.
What would it be like to care for an infant who was also your boss?
Clearly they were workers. The photographs make their work invisible. |