Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic by Kit Candlin
Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
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Kit Candlin
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Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic

Kit Candlin with Patrick Rael, Manisha Sinha, Cassandra Pybus

256 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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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 i...

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