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Black Women, Self-Making, and Liberty

Historian Tamika Nunley introduces At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery and Shifting Identities in Washington D.C. with the anecdote

African American Women in Industry, 1939-1945 (New York Public Library) “Try Miss Goldy Chickens, and try a little

In the 1640s in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, Maria Portogoys, a “half free,” formerly enslaved woman, arranged that

In July 1971, over six hundred domestic workers from thirty different cities gathered together in Washington D.C. at the first

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a