Description
As the microbiographies in this book reveal, free women of color 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.
AUTHOR: KIT CANDLIN & CASSANDRA PYBUS
GENRE: History, Microbigraphy, Women’s Studies
PUBLISHING: Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2018
ISBN: 9780820353876
PAGE COUNT: 241 pages
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