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At the Threshold of Liberty - Tamika Y. Nunley

At the Threshold of Liberty

Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2021
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6221-3 (ISBN)
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Consulting newspapers, government documents, letters, abolitionist records, legislation, and memoirs, Tamika Nunley traces how Black women navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery, created entrepreneurial economies, pursued education, and participated in political work.
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 new identities and lives beyond the oppressive restrictions intended to prevent them from ever experiencing liberty, self-respect, and power.

Consulting newspapers, government documents, letters, abolitionist records, legislation, and memoirs, Tamika Y. Nunley traces how Black women navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery, initiated freedom suits, created entrepreneurial economies, pursued education, and participated in political work. In telling these stories, Nunley places Black women at the vanguard of the history of Washington, D.C., and the momentous transformations of nineteenth-century America.

Tamika Y. Nunley is assistant professor of history and comparative American studies at Oberlin College.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Zusatzinfo 7 halftones, 1 map
Verlagsort Chapel Hill
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 565 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-4696-6221-3 / 1469662213
ISBN-13 978-1-4696-6221-3 / 9781469662213
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