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

but the retreat of the armies to the Potomac River and beyond has not been as thoroughly covered

outside Abingdon

as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded

The long and bloody American Civil War claimed the lives of more than 700

was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment

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