At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) photography With the same gripping detail

With the same gripping detail that earned his previous works critical acclaim

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he moved America toward the twin goals of abolitionism and equal rights

A Great and Good Man provides excerpts from more than 200 previously unpublished accounts written by men and women who lived during the Civil War

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At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) photography With the same gripping detailBy: 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