An example for all the land : emancipation and the struggle over equality in Washington, D.C. / / Kate Masur.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 364 p. :; ill., maps. |
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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.