"This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, D. C. , in the early decades of the twentieth century. In Living In, Living Out, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of eighty-one women who worked for wealthy white families. These women describe how they encountered - but never accepted - the master-servant relationship, and recount the strategies they used to change their status from "live in" servants to daily paid workers who "lived out"--Page 4 of cover.