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A focused study on the way that Black women have transcended slavery. . . . Well-researched.--Library Journal

"A focused study on the way that Black women have transcended slavery. . . . Well-researched.""--Library Journal A major achievement that makes critical contributions to historians' understandings of Black women's long-term battles for liberty in the District of Columbia. It will be of great interest to scholars of slavery, race, gender, and the Atlantic world . . . . Nunley expertly unpacks archival silences, fragments, and discursive violence in the existing records.""--William and Mary Quarterly Beautifully illustrates how individual desires for self-possession, family, and community, formed before the Civil War, pushed African American women to work toward a world that more closely resembled the ones they imagined.""--Journal of Southern History Extensively and impressively researched. . . . [At the Threshold of Liberty] is extremely rewarding, as the reader gains a sense of the social and cultural geography of Washington, D.C., and the crucial networks that African American women created and sustained as they made themselves on their own terms.""--North Carolina Historical Review In this excellent book Nunley offers a roadmap for historians to take Black women's visions of freedom as seriously as their successes.""--Washington History Nunley makes an incredible contribution to the field of the study of African American women in the nineteenth century. She leaves her readers with an irrefutable understanding of the centrality of Black women in the establishment of the capital's reputation as a site of liberty and justice for all...[An] impressively cohesive study exemplifies the duality of Black women's and girls' lived experiences in the capital at a pivotal turning point in the political project of nation-making.""--Black Perspectives"

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Tamika Y. Nunley is associate professor of history at Cornell University.

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