At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) Doll his health – his humanity

his health – his humanity

More than 150 years ago

The stunning victory at Trenton began a saga of victory and defeat that concluded with the British surrender at Yorktown

and the Surrenders of the Confederacy

the suffering and the ending of these more than immortal men

At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) Doll his health – his humanityBy: 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