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Author Masur, Kate.

Title An example for all the land [electronic resource] : emancipation and the struggle over equality in Washington, D.C. / Kate Masur.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 364 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-337) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Washington (D.C.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807834145 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807834149 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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