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
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xii
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Freedom's Promise: From Slavery To First Freed
Freedom Without Equality: Emancipation in the United States, 1861--1863
1
(20)
Regina T. Akers
Their Chains Shall Fall Off: The Activism of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church
21
(17)
Ida E. Jones
Henceforth and Forever Free: The African American Press and Emancipation in the District of Columbia
38
(33)
Richlyn F. Goddard
Freedom's Legacy: The Free African Community in Washington, D.C.
A Brief Moment in the Sun: The Aftermath of Emancipation in Washington, D.C., 1862--1869
71
(27)
David Taft Terry
From Emancipation to Citizenship: Blacks in Washington, D.C., 1862--1887
98
(13)
Paul Phillips Cooke
Stepping Toward Freedom: An Historical Analysis of the District of Columbia Emancipation Day Parades, 1866--1900
111
(26)
Craig A. Schiffert
Freedom's Reach: Washington and Beyond
Emancipation in the African Diaspora
137
(15)
Carol A. Beane
Notes
152
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Contributors
170
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Conference Participants
172
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