- Born: 1948
- Birthplace: Delaware
Jacqueline Jones teaches and researches the history of African Americans, labor, women, family, and the South. A 1999 MacArthur Fellowship winner, she has taught at Wellesley College, Brown University and Brandeis University. Her second book, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, won her the Bancroft Prize in 1985.
Most Famous Works
- Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (1980)
- Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present (1985)
- The Dispossessed, America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (1992)
