Free Enterprise
West virginia, fiction
African American businesspeople
Hotelkeepers
Underground Railroad
Fugitive slaves
Free enterprise
Women abolitionists
Earthquakes
Hotels
American Authors
African Americans
History
Fiction
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 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 c…
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