LEADER 03441cam a2200589 i 4500001 99124210653506421 005 20240819094719.0 008 200518s2021 ncuab b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2020022824 020 9781469662213 |qhardcover ; |qalkaline paper 020 1469662213 |qhardcover ; |qalkaline paper 020 9781469662220 |qpaperback ; |qalkaline paper 020 1469662221 |qpaperback ; |qalkaline paper 020 |z9781469662237 |qelectronic book 035 |9(YDXIT)16947358 035 (NjP)12421065-princetondb 035 (OCoLC)on1157488232 035 |z(NjP)Voyager12421065 040 NcU/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dYDX |dBDX |dVAMVE |dYDX 042 pcc 043 n-us-dc 050 00 E185.93.D6 |bN86 2021 082 00 305.8009753 |223 100 1 Nunley, Tamika, |eauthor. 245 10 At the threshold of liberty : |bwomen, slavery, and shifting identities in Washington, D.C. / |cTamika Y. Nunley. 264 1 Chapel Hill : |bThe University of North Carolina Press, |c[2021] 300 xiv, 254 pages : |billustrations, map ; |c24 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 1 The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "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"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 African American women |zWashington (D.C.) |xSocial conditions |y19th century. 650 0 African Americans |xLegal status, laws, etc. |zWashington (D.C.). 650 0 Social stratification |zWashington (D.C.) |xHistory |y19th century. 651 0 Washington (D.C.) |xRace relations |xHistory |y19th century. 650 7 African American women |xSocial conditions. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00799467 650 7 African Americans |xLegal status, laws, etc. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00799632 650 7 Race relations. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01086509 650 7 Social stratification. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01123370 651 7 Washington (D.C.) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204505 648 7 1800-1899 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture 902 kl |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20210511 904 pad |ba |hm |cb |e20210422 910 |cG0601mon 914 (OCoLC)on1157488232 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20221117 |eprocessed |f1157488232 980 |i95.00 |j77.90 |n40030468844 982 |bFY21 |n2021 |q32101112689854 986 |hE185.93.D6 |iN86 2021