Enterprising Women Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic |
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| Author:
| Candlin, Kit
Pybus, Cassandra |
| Contribution by:
| Rael, Patrick |
| Series edited by:
| Sinha, Manisha |
| Series title: | Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-4779-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $79.95USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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These recovered histories of entrepreneurial women of color from the colonial Caribbean illustrate an environment in which upward social mobility for freedpeople was possible. Through determination and extensive commercial and kinship connections, these women penetrated British life and created success for themselves and future generations.
These recovered histories of entrepreneurial women of color from the colonial Caribbean illustrate an environment in which upward social mobility for freedpeople was possible. Through determination and extensive commercial and kinship connections, these women penetrated British life and created success for themselves and future generations.