The Making of Mammy Pleasant: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Lynn M. Hudson

The Making of Mammy Pleasant: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

Lynn M. Hudson

224 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging informative medium-paced
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Mary Ellen Pleasant arrived in Gold Rush-era San Francisco a free black woman with abolitionist convictions and a predilection for entrepreneurial success. Behind the convenient and trusted disguise of "Mammy," she transformed domestic labor into ...

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