Black Women’s Economic Power: Visualizing Domestic Spaces in the 1830s
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BLACK WOMEN’S ECONOMIC POWER: VISUALIZING DOMESTIC SPACES IN THE 1830s

Boarding Houses: Sites of Black Intellectual Production

Explore brief biographies of the people who ran boarding houses, and of the women who gained economic independence through their sartorial and culinary skills.

Serena and Peter Gardiner

Listing in a newspaper, from 1835.

Eliza and David Johnson

print newspaper ad

Amelia Shad

Rebecca and Charles Short

newspaperclipping

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