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

Main Author: Masur, Kate.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10425413
Table of Contents:
  • 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.