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Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900)
Candlin, Kit, Pybus, Cassandra
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Description for Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900)
Hardcover. Series: Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
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 in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen ... Read more
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 in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820344553
SKU
V9780820344553
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About Candlin, Kit, Pybus, Cassandra
Kit Candlin is a research fellow in history at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795–1815. Cassandra Pybus is professor of history at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty and Black ... Read more
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