An example for all the land : emancipation and the struggle over equality in Washington, D.C. /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Masur, Kate.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Description:	x, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	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. African Americans. African Americans -- Civil rights. African Americans -- Politics and government. African Americans -- Suffrage. Politics and government Washington (D.C.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. Washington (D.C.) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8128012

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ISBN:	9780807834145 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807834149 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Everywhere Is Freedom and Everybody Free: The Capital Transformed
2. They Feel It Is Their Right: Freedpeople, Reformers, and the Demands of Citizenship
3. Someone Must Lead the Way: Creating and Claiming Civil Rights
4. First among Them Is the Right of Suffrage: The Vote and Its Consequences
5. Make Haste Slowly: The Limits of Equality
6. To Save the Common Property and Respectability of All: The Rise and Fall of the Territorial Government
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
Index

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