At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) photography A Great and Good Man

A Great and Good Man provides excerpts from more than 200 previously unpublished accounts written by men and women who lived during the Civil War

teetering on the brink of losing the second most important field army in the Confederacy

With the same gripping detail that earned his previous works critical acclaim

Toy Train (#34671)

At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, & Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C. (Tamika Y. Nunley - BH) photography A Great and Good ManBy: 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