a black entrepreneur in nineteenth-century San Francisco
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hudson, Lynn M.
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4534 - B
- Thesaurus
- ondernemers, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of Mary Ellen Pleasant, a free black woman with abolitionist convictions and an aptitude for entrepreneurial success. She transformed domestic labour into enterprise, amassed remarkable real estate, wealth, and power, and gained notoriety for het work in fighting Jim Crow.