Almost 50 Years After Slavery Ended - How You Doing?

Don't forget, until white feminists dreamed of entering the workplace, it wasn't done in the West:

“To begin with, then, I should say that more than two-thirds of the negroes of the town where I live are menial servants of one kind or another, and besides that more than two-thirds of the negro women here, whether married or single, are compelled to work for a living,--as nurses, cooks, washerwomen, chambermaids, seamstresses, hucksters, janitresses, and the like. I will say, also, that the condition of this vast host of poor colored people is just as bad as, if not worse than, it was during the days of slavery. Tho today we are enjoying a nominal freedom, we are literally slaves. And, not to generalize, I will give you a sketch of the work I have to do--and I'm only one of many.”

"Nominal freedom":

A good description for how American History's taught today, too,...