The Making of "Mammy Pleasant"
Subtitle: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (Women in American History)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252027710
Subjects: Black studies; History; Blacks In The U.S.; Women In The U.S.; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Business; People of Color; Women; Biography & Autobiography / People of Color; Pleasant, Mary Ellen; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Women's Studies - General; 1814-1904; African American businesspeople; African American women; African Americans; Biography; California; Pleasant, Mary Ellen,; San Francisco
First sentence: Every detail about Mary Ellen Pleasant's past is contested: her birthplace, her parents, her name, her occupation, and her wealth.