BOOK: Hudson on Mary Ellen Pleasant
Lynn M. Hudson, The Making of “Mammy Pleasant”: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. From University of Illinois Press: In The Making of […]
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BOOK: Myers on Free Women of Color in Antebellum Charleston
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston. University of North Carolina Press, 2011. From UNC Press: For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom […]
REF: Berry and Alford’s Encyclopedia of Enslaved Women in America
Daina Ramey Berry and Deleso A. Alford, eds. Enslaved Women in America: An Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2012. via Greenwood: This singular reference provides an authoritative account of the daily lives […]
ESSAY: Gates and Ellis on Harriet Wilson, 19th Century Novelist and Spiritualist
Quite a late posting. Many apologies on the hiatus. ~JMJOHNSO For more on Wilson as an entrepreneur see Gabrielle Foreman and Katherine Flynn’s 2009 Boston Globe piece here. Gates, Henry […]
