An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.

by Kate Masur

Book Overview

An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of how black men's right to vote transformed local affairs, and how, in short order, city reformers made that right virtually meaningless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807872660
• ISBN13: 9780807872666
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"