Enterprising women : gender, race, and power in the revolutionary Atlantic

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Candlin,Kit (Author) and Pybus,Cassandra (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2015
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780820344553
    Published:
    Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9780820344553;0820344559
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, History, Blacks, Women, 19th century, 18th century, Racially mixed people, and Social stratification
    Notes:
    241 p, In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen of Demerara.

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