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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 herself as a wage-earning woman, proud of her work, who earned high pay and accumulated quite a bit of money as one of the nation's earliest "beauticians" at a time when most black women worked at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. --from publisher description
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Biography, Social life and customs, Beauty operators, History, African Americans, Women, Manners and customs, African americans, ohio, cincinnati, African americans, biography, United states, social life and customsPeople
Eliza PotterPlaces
United States, Ohio, Cincinnati, Cincinnati (Ohio)Times
1783-1865, 19th centuryShowing 4 featured editions. View all 16 editions?
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A hairdresser's experience in high life
1991, Oxford University Press
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0195061985 9780195061987
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