Bibliograph

At the threshold of liberty, women, slavery, and shifting identities in Washington, D.C., Tamika Y. Nunley

Type

Label

At the threshold of liberty, women, slavery, and shifting identities in Washington, D.C., Tamika Y. Nunley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

At the threshold of liberty

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1157488232

Responsibility statement

Tamika Y. Nunley

Series statement

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Sub title

women, slavery, and shifting identities in Washington, D.C.

Summary

"At the center of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington D.C. was governed by federally-appointed commissioners who enacted black codes that confined the social and physical mobility of black Americans in the District, placing black women at the bottom of a broader social schema ordered by race and gender. At the threshold of liberty examines the ways that African American women-enslaved, fugitive, freedwomen, and refugee-lived, survived, and made claims to liberty from the founding of the nation's capital to the American Civil War, focusing on their strategies of self-making in the contexts of slavery and fugitivity in courts, schools, streets, and government. These liberty claims were constant reminders of the contradiction between bondage and the symbolism of the nation's capital as the centerpiece of the new republic and its ideals"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Slavery -- Fugitivity -- Courts -- Schools -- Streets -- Government -- Conclusion

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