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ISBN-10:: 0195061985
ISBN-13:: 9780195061987
Pub. Date:: 04/18/1991
Publisher:: Oxford University Press

ISBN-10:: 0195061985
ISBN-13:: 9780195061987
Pub. Date:: 04/18/1991
Publisher:: Oxford University Press

A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

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Eliza Potter's 1859 autobiography expresses her indignation, abolitionist sentiments, fiery temper, and sheer joy of life as she reveals the private selves of the white women whose heads she "combed." As an insider on the margins, her identity provides a unique vantage point for her story and that of the elites of nineteenth-century Cincinnati society.

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ISBN-13:	9780195061987
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/18/1991
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.84(w) x 4.95(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

Eliza Potter (born 1820) was an African-American hairdresser in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Xiomara Santamarina is associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is author of Belabored Professions: Autobiography and Black Women's Labor (UNC Press) and several essays on early African American literature.

Acknowledgments vii

A Note on the Text ix

Introduction Eliza Potter xi

Notes xxx

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This expert edition brings Eliza Potter and her intriguingly unconventional and controversial text into focus in ways that allow us to appreciate more fully than ever before the daring originality of the author's enterprise. This is a must read for anyone interested in the development of African American literature in the nineteenth century.—William L. Andrews, editor of The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology

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