Enterprising Women Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic |
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| Author:
| Candlin, Kit
Pybus, Cassandra
Rael, Patrick
Sinha, Manisha |
| Series title: | Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-5387-6 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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As the microbiographies in this book reveal, free women of colour in Britain's Caribbean colonies were not merely the dependent concubines of the white male elite, as is commonly assumed. In the capricious world of the slave colonies during the age of revolutions, some of them were able to rise to dizzying heights of success.
As the microbiographies in this book reveal, free women of colour in Britain's Caribbean colonies were not merely the dependent concubines of the white male elite, as is commonly assumed. In the capricious world of the slave colonies during the age of revolutions, some of them were able to rise to dizzying heights of success.