Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic

by Kit Candlin and Cassandra Pybus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820353876
• ISBN13: 9780820353876
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"