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Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC
Hardcover
$29.95
By Barbara Boyle Torrey, Clara Myrick Green, James Fisher (Foreword by), Tanya Gaskins Hardy (Foreword by), Maurice Jackson (Foreword by)
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An original history of six generations of an African American family living in Washington, DC
Between Freedom and Equality begins with the life of Capt. George Pointer, an enslaved African who purchased his freedom in 1793 while working for George Washington’s Potomac Company. It follows the lives of six generations of his descendants as they lived and worked on the banks of the Potomac, in the port of Georgetown, and in a rural corner of the nation’s capital. By tracing the story of one fa...