Enterprising women : gender, race, and power in the revolutionary Atlantic / Kit Candlin and Cassandra Pybus.

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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 in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transa...

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Uniform Title:	Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Main Authors:	Candlin, Kit (Author) Pybus, Cassandra (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Series:	Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Subjects:	Racially mixed women > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century. Women, Black > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century. Businesswomen > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century. Social stratification > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century. Businesswomen. Racially mixed women. Social stratification. Women, Black. History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	x, 241 pages ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book

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