[PDF.60zp] A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

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 | #2145903 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2009-11-01 |  2009-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x.63 x6.10l,.85 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Thank God for progress in our society, for the worth of blacks and women.|By KAAREN MONTGOMERY|This book is a very interesting glimpse into history from a free black women's point of view. You also get a feeling that a women's importance, at that time, was to be beautiful, speak several languages, and not much else.| |Insightful. . . . Santamarina's editorial work recovers Potter's autobiography and uncovers assumptions about the world from which that text arose.--Choice||| |This expert edition brings Eliza Potter and her intrigu

Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography, A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life. Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women--and she recorded it all in a revelatory book that delighted Cincinnati's gossip columnists at the time. But more important is Potter's portrait of he...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life   |  Eliza Potter. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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