Explore brief biographies of the people who ran boarding houses, and of the women who gained economic independence through their sartorial and culinary skills.
Black Women’s Economic Power: Visualizing Domestic Spaces in the 1830s
Boarding Houses: Sites of Black Intellectual Production
Black Women’s Economic Power: Visualizing Domestic Spaces in the 1830s
An exhibit in the collection of the Colored Conventions Project
CITATION: De Vera, Samantha. “Black Women’s Economic Power: Visualizing Domestic Spaces in the 1830s.” Colored Conventions Project. 2016. https://coloredconventions.org/women-economic-power.
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