Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
<>— M.E.P.
This message was found on John Brown's body following his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry. History books do not record the contribution of his mysterious collaborator, "M.E.P.," but in Free Enterprise, acclaimed novelist Michelle Cliff tells the remarkable story of frontier legend Mary Ellen Pleasant.
Read more
In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that cater to wealthy whites and secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her life of privilege to fight for the abolitionist cause. Together they join John Brown's doomed enterprise, and barely escape with their lives.
Liked Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
