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Author:

Nunley, Tamika, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xiv, 254 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African American women--Washington (D.C.)--Social conditions--19th century.
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Washington (D.C.)
Social stratification--Washington (D.C.)--History--19th century.
Washington (D.C.)--History--History--19th century.
African American women--Social conditions.
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
Race relations.
Social stratification.
Washington (D.C.)
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

ISBN:

1469662221
9781469662220
1469662213
9781469662213

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1157488232

LCCN:

2020022824

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)