An edition of Free Enterprise
(1993)
Free Enterprise
A Novel
by Michelle Cliff
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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.
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Jamaican Americans, American authors, African American businesspeople, African American women abolitionists, African Americans, Earthquakes, Fiction, Fugitive slaves, History, Hotelkeepers, Hotels, Underground railroad, Women abolitionists, Women civil rights workers, Free enterprise, West virginia, fiction, African American businesswomenPeople
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Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
September 1, 2004, City Lights Books
Paperback
in English
0872864375 9780872864375
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Free Enterprise
1995, Penguin Books Ltd., Penguin Books Ltd
Paperback
in English
0140231609 9780140231601
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