A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

by Eliza Potter (Author), Xiomara Santamarina (Editor)

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2009
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Eliza Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women. This autobiography presents her portrait 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'.

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Eliza Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women. This autobiography presents her portrait 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'.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 252
Edition: 1
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 15 Nov 2009
ISBN 10: 0807859826
ISBN 13: 9780807859827

A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

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