170027970X     

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

Nunley, Tamika [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

xiv, 254 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-4696-6221-3 ; 978-1-4696-6222-0 (pbk)

978-1-4696-6223-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2020022824

OCoLC: 1249483303     

E185.93.D6

305.8009753     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*Washington, DC ; Schwarze Frau ; Sklavin ; Sklaverei ; Abschaffung ; Geschichte 1800-1899     Zum Register

LOC-SH: 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.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century

"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"--