Free enterprise : a novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant /

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 c...

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Main Author:	Cliff, Michelle
Corporate Authors:	Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania), Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (Brown University) Poetry, 1976-2000
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	San Francisco : City Lights, 2004 San Francisco : 2004
Edition:	1st City Lights ed
Subjects:	Pleasant, Mary Ellen, > 1814-1904 > Fiction Pleasant, Mary Ellen, > 1814-1904 African American businesspeople > Fiction African American businesswomen > Fiction > UNAUTHORIZED African American businesswomen > Fiction African American women abolitionists > Fiction African American women > Fiction African Americans > Fiction Earthquakes > Fiction Fugitive slaves > Fiction Hotelkeepers > Fiction Hotels > Fiction Underground Railroad > Fiction CHR 2004 PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy) African American businesspeople African American women abolitionists African Americans Earthquakes Fugitive slaves Hotelkeepers Hotels Underground Railroad San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction Fiction Historical fiction

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Call Number:	1976 C6373 M53f