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Childress, Alice. Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life. Boston: Beacon, 1986.

Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Du Bois, W. E. B. Darkwater, Voices from Within the Veil. New York: Schocken Books, 1920; reprinted 1969.

Dudden, Faye E. Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1983.

Jones, Jacqueline. Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and Family from Slavery to the Present. New York: Basic Books, 1985.

Haynes, Elizabeth Ross. "Negroes in Domestic Service," The Journal of Negro History, VIII (October 1923).

Hunter, Tera W. To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Katzman, David. Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Kessler-Harris, Alice. Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Linsley, Judith W. "Main House, Carriage House," Southwestern Historical Quarterly CIII (July 1999).

O'Leary, Elizabeth L. At Beck and Call: The Representation of Domestic Servants in Nineteenth-Century American Painting. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

O'Leary, Elizabeth L. From Morning to Night: Domestic Service in Maymont House and the Gilded Age South. University Press of Virginia, 2003.

Palmer, Phyllis. Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

Pettengill, Lillian. Toilers of the Home: The Record of a College Woman's Experience as Domestic Servant. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903.

Rollins, Judith. Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985.

Salmon, Lucy Maynard. Domestic Service. New York: MacMillan, 1897; reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1972.

Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.

Sutherland, Daniel E. "Modernizing Domestic Service," in American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services, Jessica Foy and Thomas J. Schlereth, eds. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

Tucker, Susan. Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

Weis, Tracey M. "Negotiating Freedom: Domestic Service and The Landscape of Labor and Household Relations in Richmond, VA, 1850-1880." Ph.D. diss., Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 1994.

Wynes, Charles E. Race Relations in Virginia, 1870-1902. Totowa New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1971.

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