Candlin Kit, Pybus Cassandra Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic 9780820344553

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Автор: Candlin Kit, Pybus Cassandra
Название: Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
ISBN: 9780820344553
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Гендерные исследования: женщины

Этнические меньшинства и мультикультурные исследования

ISBN-10: 0820344559
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 240
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 30.12.2014
Серия: Race in the atlantic world, 1700-1900
Язык: English
Размер: 237 x 161 x 23
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Gender studies: women,Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies,Entrepreneurship
Подзаголовок: Gender, race, and power in the revolutionary atlantic
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen of Demerara.Dorothy Thomas’s story is but one of the remarkable accounts of pluck and courage recovered in Enterprising Women. 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. These highly entrepreneurial women exercised remarkable mobility and developed extensive commercial and kinship connections in the metropolitan heart of empire while raising well-educated children who were able to penetrate deep into British life.

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