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First Freed
Edited by the award-winning author of Living in, Living Out: African
American Women and the Great Migration and co-producer of the widely
acclaimed public television documentary, "Freedom Bags," FIRST
FREED is a unique study of the District of Columbia's emancipation
legacy. Drawn from the proceedings of a community-based conference held
in Washington, D.C., its chapter’s document, from local archives and
other primary sources, the course of freedom for blacks in the
District--where slavery was abolished before emancipation occurred in
the rest of the nation. FIRST FREED sheds new light on the history of
the nation's capital. It more fully illuminates the experiences and
activism of its early African American residents.
ELIZABETH CLARK-LEWIS is Director of the Public History Program in the
History Department at Howard University and a founding member of the
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Association.
"...a gem of a collection...an invaluable
resource...compelling reading...that evoke[s] the strength,
sophistication, and political astuteness of a many‑faceted
community in a brief flowering of opportunity..." -- Jane
Freundel Levey
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