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An example for all the land : emancipation and the struggle over equality in Washington, D.C.
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- Creator
- Kate Masur
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- x, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1469606267, 9780807872666, 9780807834145, 0807872660, 0807899321, 0807834149, 9781469606262, 9780807899328
- OCLC
- ocn542263601, ocn676697162
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-337) and index.
- Introduction -- Everywhere is freedom and everybody free : the capital transformed -- They feel it is their right : freedpeople, reformers, and the demands of citizenship -- Someone must lead the way : creating and claiming civil rights -- First among them is the right of suffrage : the vote and its consequences -- Make haste slowly : the limits of equality -- To save the common property and respectability of all : the rise and fall of the territorial government
Subjects
- African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century.
- African Americans -- Suffrage -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century.
- Washington (D.C.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.