This article also included in the Papers presented at the Eleventh Conference of Caribbean Historians, held in Curaçao 5-10 April, 1979 (s.l.: Association of Caribbean Historians; 5 vols.)
Includes an account of the 1848 slave insurrection of Saint Croix, when more than five thousand slaves “stormed the fort and demanded freedom,” later burning the town down." (Lynda Koolish, "Maud Cuney-Hare," Oxford Companion to African American Literature)
Examines the lifestyles and entrepreneurial skills of Karen Theresa Curtis as a businesswoman managing her own huskers. While the free colored men were protesting their lack of civil rights, the women engaged in commerce were protected by no rights and were experiencing their own problems in defending their property.
