Free Enterprise
Michelle Cliff. Plume Books, $9.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-452-27122-7
Cliff's acclaimed novel centers around the life of 19th-century civil rights activist Mary Ellen Pleasant. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 10/31/1994
Genre: Fiction
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