Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant by Michelle Cliff

Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant

Michelle Cliff

213 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction historical race emotional slow-paced
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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 ...

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