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  • In the shadow of freedom = the politics of slavery in the national capital /
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    Title/Author: In the shadow of freedom/ edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon.
    Reminder of title: the politics of slavery in the national capital /
    other author: Kennon, Donald R.,
    Published: Athens :Published for the United States Capitol Historical Societyby Ohio University Press, : c2010.,
    Description: 1 online resource (viii, 248 p.) :ill.
    Notes: Papers from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society meeting held in 2006.
    [NT 15003449]: Slavery in the shadow of liberty : the problem of slavery in Congress and the nation's capital / Paul Finkelman -- pt. 1. Congress and slavery in context -- The impact of British abolitionism on American sectionalism / David Brion Davis -- Christian statesmanship, codes of honor, and congressional violence : the antislavery travails and triumphs of Joshua Giddings / James B. Stewart -- Gamaliel Bailey, antislavery journalist and lobbyist / Stanley Harrold -- Saturday nights at the Baileys': building an antislavery movement in Congress, 1838/1854 / Jonathan Earle -- "A nest of rattlesnakes let loose among them" : congressional debates over women's antislavery petitions, 1835/1845 / Susan Zaeske -- Debating slavery by proxy : the Texas annexation controversy / David Zarefsky -- pt. 2.The politics of slavery in the District of Columbia -- The 1846 retrocession of Alexandria : protecting slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia / A. Glenn Crothers -- "Whether they be ours or no, they may be heirs of the kingdom" : the pursuit of family ties among enslaved people in the District of Columbia / Mary BethCorrigan -- The 1848 Pearl escape from Washington, D.C. : a convergence of opportunity, motivation, and political action in the nation's capital / Mary K. Ricks -- Celebrating emancipation and contesting freedom in Washington, D.C. / Mitch Kachun.
    Subject: Slavery - Congresses. - Law and legislation - 19th century - United States -
    Subject: Washington (D.C.) - Fiction. -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780821443491/Full text available:
    ISBN: 9780821443491 (electronic bk.)
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