Free Enterprise.

From: The Women's Review of Books | Date: July 1, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

the loss, the forgetting...of resistance...is a terrible thing.

No Telephone to Heaven

WHO HAS EVER HEARD of Annie Christmas, Mary Shadd Carey, Mary Ellen Pleasant?" asks the narrator of Free Enterprise, Michelle Cliff's third novel. All nineteenth-century comrades in the struggle for Black liberation, theirs, except perhaps for Carey's, are among the countless names "disappeared" from "official" accounts of resistance to slavery's domination.

Free Enterprise takes its inspiration from one such act of resistance: John Brown's famous raid on Harper's Ferry in October 1859. ...

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