Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant by Michelle Cliff

Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant

Michelle Cliff

213 pages first pub 1993 (view editions)

fiction historical race emotional slow-paced
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The patient reader who savors slow, emotionally resonant historical fiction told through shifting, lyrical voices and who is drawn to stories that illuminate marginalized perspectives on freedom, resistance, and the long aftermath of slavery will find this novel rewarding.

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In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up ...

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