Free Enterprise
Subtitle: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
By: Michelle Cliff.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: September 1, 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: 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
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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."--Jacket.