In the shadow of freedom
Subtitle: the politics of slavery in the national capital
By: edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon
Contributors: United States Capitol Historical Society
Series: Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877
Publisher: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780821419342; 9780821443491
Subjects: Politics and government; United States; Race relations; United States. Congress; Congresses; History; Law and legislation; Slavery; Antislavery movements
Notes: Papers from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society meeting held in 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery in the shadow of liberty : the problem of slavery in Congress and the nation's capital / Paul Finkelman; title: pt. 1. Congress and slavery in context; title: The impact of British abolitionism on American sectionalism / David Brion Davis; title: Christian statesmanship, codes of honor, and congressional violence : the antislavery travails and triumphs of Joshua Giddings / James B. Stewart; title: Gamaliel Bailey, antislavery journalist and lobbyist / Stanley Harrold; title: Saturday nights at the Baileys' : building an antislavery movement in Congress, 1838/1854 / Jonathan Earle; title: "A nest of rattlesnakes let loose among them" : congressional debates over women's antislavery petitions, 1835/1845 / Susan Zaeske; title: Debating slavery by proxy : the Texas annexation controversy / David Zarefsky; title: pt. 2. The politics of slavery in the District of Columbia; title: The 1846 retrocession of Alexandria : protecting slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia / A. Glenn Crothers; title: "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; title: The 1848 Pearl escape from Washington, D.C. : a convergence of opportunity, motivation, and political action in the nation's capital / Mary K. Ricks; title: Celebrating emancipation and contesting freedom in Washington, D.C. / Mitch Kachun.