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

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

Cassandra Pybus, Kit Candlin

256 pages • first pub 2015 (view 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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