Title: A hairdresser's experience in high life
Description: Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women--and she recorded it all in a revelatory book that delighted Cincinnati's gossip columnists at the time. But more important is Potter's portrait of herself as a wage-earning woman, proud of her work, who earned high pay and accumulated quite a bit of money as one of the nation's earliest "beauticians" at a time when most black women worked at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.  --from publisher description
Subjects: Biography, Social life and customs, Beauty operators, History, African Americans, Women, Manners and customs, African americans, ohio, cincinnati, African americans, biography, United states, social life and customs
Places: United States, Ohio, Cincinnati, Cincinnati (Ohio)
People: Eliza Potter
Time periods: 1783-1865, 19th century