Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic by Kit Candlin, Cassandra Pybus

Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic

Kit Candlin, Cassandra Pybus

240 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident i...

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