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

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

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

The real lives of ordinary people who leave their homes and families behind to answer duty's call for this new and inexperienced nation are featured

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At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) Section - Human Interest was both an entrepot ofBy: 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