Masur, Kate.

An example for all the land emancipation and the struggle over equality in Washington, D.C. / [electronic resource] : Kate Masur. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010. - x, 364 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.


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African Americans--History--Washington (D.C.)--19th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--Washington (D.C.)--19th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--Washington (D.C.)--19th century.
African Americans--Suffrage--History--Washington (D.C.)--19th century.


Washington (D.C.)--Politics and government--19th century.


Electronic books.

F205.N4 / M37 2010eb

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