ISBN:
9780821443491
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0821443496
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 248 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als In the shadow of freedom
DDC:
305.8009753
Keywords:
United States / Congress Congresses
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History
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19th century
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United States / Congress Congresses
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History
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19th century
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United States
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Slavery Congresses
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History
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19th century
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Washington (D.C.)
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Slavery Congresses
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Political aspects
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History
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19th century
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Washington (D.C.)
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Antislavery movements Congresses
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History
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19th century
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Washington (D.C.)
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History
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19th century
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United States
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Slavery Congresses Political aspects 19th century
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History
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Antislavery movements Congresses History 19th century
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Slavery Congresses Law and legislation 19th century
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History
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Slavery Congresses History 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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HISTORY ; General
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Antislavery movements
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Politics and government
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Race relations
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Slavery
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Slavery ; Law and legislation
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Slavery ; Political aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Washington (D.C.) Congresses
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift 2006
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
Abstract:
Few images of early America were more striking, and jarring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world's most important free republic. Black slaves served and sustained the legislators, bureaucrats, jurists, cabinet officials, military leaders, and even the presidents who lived and worked there. While slaves quietly kept the nation's capital running smoothly, lawmakers debated the place of slavery in the nation, the status of slavery in the territories newly acquired from Mexico, and even the legality of the slave trade in itself. This volume, with essays by some of the most disti
Abstract:
Slavery in the shadow of liberty : the problem of slavery in Congress and the nation's capital / Paul Finkelman -- pt. 1. Congress and slavery in context -- The impact of British abolitionism on American sectionalism / David Brion Davis -- Christian statesmanship, codes of honor, and congressional violence : the antislavery travails and triumphs of Joshua Giddings / James B. Stewart -- Gamaliel Bailey, antislavery journalist and lobbyist / Stanley Harrold -- Saturday nights at the Baileys' : building an antislavery movement in Congress, 1838/1854 / Jonathan Earle -- "A nest of rattlesnakes let loose among them" : congressional debates over women's antislavery petitions, 1835/1845 / Susan Zaeske -- Debating slavery by proxy : the Texas annexation controversy / David Zarefsky -- pt. 2. The politics of slavery in the District of Columbia -- The 1846 retrocession of Alexandria : protecting slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia / A. Glenn Crothers -- "Whether they be ours or no, they may be heirs of the kingdom" : the pursuit of family ties among enslaved people in the District of Columbia / Mary Beth Corrigan -- The 1848 Pearl escape from Washington, D.C. : a convergence of opportunity, motivation, and political action in the nation's capital / Mary K. Ricks -- Celebrating emancipation and contesting freedom in Washington, D.C. / Mitch Kachun.
Note:
Papers from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society meeting held in 2006. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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