Abstract
Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic, written by Kit Candlin & Cassandra Pybus
Highlights
Free women of color who accumulated considerable wealth during slavery in the British Caribbean have already been the object of historical inquiry
What distinguishes Enterprising Women from previous studies is its geographic reach beyond Barbados to Grenada, Trinidad, and Demerara, where such women emerge from anonymity
Kit Candlin and Cassandra Pybus offer fascinating glimpses into the world of these women, most of whom were once slaves to become wealthy, influential entrepreneurs largely through their own efforts, without the assistance of white males that has been commonly presumed in Caribbean historiography
Summary
Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic. Free women of color who accumulated considerable wealth during slavery in the British Caribbean have already been the object of historical inquiry. What distinguishes Enterprising Women from previous studies is its geographic reach beyond Barbados to Grenada, Trinidad, and Demerara, where such women emerge from anonymity.
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