Book 1999

American Work

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 1999

African Americans
History
Race relations
Economic conditions
Race discrimination
Employment
United states, race relations
African americans, employment

In the eyes of Captain John Smith, early seventeenth-century Virginia offered up a perverse paradise of sorts, a bountiful Eden where, nevertheless, English men, women, and children could earn their bread-and a dry coarse cornbread at that-only by the sweat of their brow.