At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) farm Frassanito focuses on the period

Frassanito focuses on the period between 1859 and 1869

5" Bronze Barrel

but also your life

Confederate gray

The architecture and history of Hunterstown

At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) farm Frassanito focuses on the periodBy: 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