A hairdresser's experience in high life.

Description:

Potter was a freeborn black woman who, as a hairdresser, was in a unique position to hear about, receive confidences from, and observe wealthy white women--and she recorded it all in a revelatory book that delighted Cincinnati's gossip columnists at the time. But more important is Potter's portrait of herself 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" at a time when most black women worked at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. --from publisher description

subjects: Biography,  Social life and customs,  Beauty operators,  History,  African Americans,  Women,  Manners and customs,  African americans, ohio, cincinnati,  African americans, biography,  United states, social life and customs

People: Eliza Potter

Places: United States,  Ohio,  Cincinnati,  Cincinnati (Ohio)

Times: 1783-1865,  19th century