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

As the microbiographies in this book reveal, free women of colour in Britain's Caribbean colonies were not merely the dependent concubines of the white male elite, as is commonly assumed. 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.

About the author

KIT CANDLIN is a research fellow in history at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815.

Summary

These recovered histories of entrepreneurial women of color from the colonial Caribbean illustrate an environment in which upward social mobility for freedpeople was possible. Through determination and extensive commercial and kinship connections, these women penetrated British life and created success for themselves and future generations.

Product details

• Authors: Kit Candlin, Kit/ Pybus Candlin, Cassandra Pybus
• Assisted by: Patrick Rael (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2015
• EAN: 9780820344553
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4455-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 17; Race in the Atlantic World, 17; Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1790 bis 1799 n. Chr., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, History - Military / War, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)