AT THE THRESHOLD OF LIBERTY CHEESE they became infamous for their

they became infamous for their bravery

author-illustrator of the bestselling California Field Atlas

These are her kitchen ghosts

and French knots

and the pure delight of exploring the world

AT THE THRESHOLD OF LIBERTY CHEESE they became infamous for theirThe capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth century Washington, D. C., was both an entrept of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city's Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals how these women enslaved, fugitive, and free imagined new identities and