In the shadow of freedom : the politics of slavery in the national capital /
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Athens :
Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press,
c2011.
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| Series: | Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Beth Corrigan
- 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.
