Hairdresser's Experience in High Life

Here is the first fully annotated edition of a landmark in early African American literature--Eliza Potter''s 1859 autobiography, A Hairdresser''s Experience in High Life. 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''...