[PDF.63au] In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital (Perspective Hist of Congress 1801-1877)

Few images of early America were more striking, and jarring, than that of slaves in the capital city of the world’s most important free republic. Black slaves served and sustained the legislators, bureaucrats, jurists, cabinet officials, military leaders, and even the presidents who lived and worked there. While slaves quietly kept the nation’s capital running smoothly, lawmakers debated the place of slavery in the nation, the status of slavery i...

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