Free enterprise : a novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant / by Michelle Cliff.

Author/creator Cliff, Michelle
Format Book
Edition1st City Lights ed.
Publication InfoSan Francisco : City Lights, 2004.
Description213 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects
Pleasant, Mary Ellen, 1814-1904--Fiction.
African American women abolitionists--Fiction.
African American businesspeople--Fiction.
Underground Railroad--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Fugitive slaves--Fiction.
Hotelkeepers--Fiction.
Earthquakes--Fiction.
Hotels--Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.

Contents Annie Christmas -- Plague -- She Was a Friend of John Brown -- Tender Comrades.
Review "In Free Enterprise, novelist Michelle Cliff tells the story of frontier legend 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 cater to wealthy whites and 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 cause. Together they join John Brown's doomed enterprise, and barely escape with their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
General note"Free enterprise was first published by Dutton in 1993"--T.p. verso.
Genre/formHistorical fiction.
Genre/formHistorical fiction.
LCCN 2004051811
ISBN0872864375
ISBN9780872864375

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PR9265.9.C55 F74 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold