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Free enterprise / Michelle Cliff.
LIBRA PR9265.9.C55 F74 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cliff, Michelle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859--Fiction.
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.).
- Women civil rights workers--United States--Fiction.
- Women civil rights workers.
- African Americans--History--19th century--Fiction.
- African Americans.
- Women abolitionists--United States--Fiction.
- Women abolitionists.
- United States.
- West Virginia--Harpers Ferry.
- Genre:
- novels.
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 213 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin, ©1994.
- Summary:
- In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant named Free Enterprise to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasants owns a string of hotels that cater to wealthy whites and secretly is a haven for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican fighting for the abolitionist cause. Together they join John Brown's doomed crusade.
- Notes:
- "A Plume book."
- Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1993.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0452271223
- 9780452271227
- OCLC:
- 31637965
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