JULIET E. K. WALKER is professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin, and the founder and director of the Center for Black Business History, Entrepreneurship, and Technology. She is author of Free Frank: A Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier and editor of Encyclopedia of African American Business History.
A richly detailed, sweeping examination of black business from
precolonial Africa to the conclusion of the Civil War. . . . Highly
recommended.--Choice
Like Du Bois's work a century before, Walker's book will attract
scholars to the field of black business history and compel them to
realize how this subject sheds considerable light on many aspects
of American business history.--Business History Review
This massive study does indeed break new ground, and in a big way.
. . . It has interpretative depth and substance, stressing the
African source of a mercantile ethos among blacks. . . . To be
sure, no one can now contend that blacks lack an entrepreneurial
tradition. . . . It is a first-rate piece of historical
scholarship.--Journal of American Ethnic History
Walker has produced an excellent, highly readable, and informative
book that will stand the test for years to come as the standard in
the field of black history. It is a superb contribution to the
literature of African American history.--Journal of American
History
Walker makes a magnificent contribution to the literature on
African American entrepreneurship and capitalism. Shattering myths,
pointing to possibilities, and refining our thinking about
procrustean racism, Professor Walker explores perceptively a world
where blacks have been much maligned and vilified. . . . No
effective discussion of the black community can go on without
Professor Walker's book as a basis for understanding the
peculiarities and promises of Black life in America.--H-Net
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