At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) Section - Human Interest survivors of the Civil War

survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record

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A zealous cavalryman

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At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) Section - Human Interest survivors of the Civil WarBy: 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