In the Shadow of Freedom: The Politics of Slavery in the National Capital (Perspective History of Congres) (Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801-1877)

by PaulFinkelman (Contributor), StanleyHarrold (Contributor), JonathanEarle (Contributor), David Brion Davis (Contributor), Donald R . Kennon (Contributor), JonathanH.Earle (Contributor), Mitch Kachun (Contributor), Mary Beth Corrigan (Contributor), A . Glenn Crothers (Contributor), Mary K . Ricks (Contributor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $68.47

  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.