At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) Doll and African Americans themselves

and African Americans themselves

More than 150 years ago

although he kept his complaints private

and the Surrenders of the Confederacy

At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) Doll and African Americans themselvesBy: Tamika Y Nunley The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth century Washington, D. C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city's Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals how these women enslaved, fugitive, and free imagined