Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
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- Synopsis
- In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her life of privilege to fight for the abolitionist cause. Together they join John Brown's doomed enterprise and barely escape with their lives. With mesmerizing skill, Cliff weaves a multitude of voices into a gripping, poignant story of the struggle for liberation that began not long after the first slaves landed on America's shores.
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 224 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780872864375
- Publisher:
- City Lights Books
- Date of Addition:
- 03/04/13
- Copyrighted By:
- Reed Business Information
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Benjamin Vercellone
- Proofread By:
- Jack Teeter
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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