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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 39 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by L. Malaika Cooper. |
| Summary |
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. Between Freedom and Equality offers a moving and inspiring look at the challenges that free African Americans have faced in Washington, DC, since the district's founding. The story begins with an 1829 letter from Pointer that is preserved today in the National Archives. Inspired by Pointer's letter, authors Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green began researching this remarkable man who was a boat captain and supervisory engineer for the Potomac canal system. The Pointer family faced many challenges-the fragility of freedom in a slaveholding society, racism, wars, floods, and epidemics-but their refuge was the small farm they purchased in what is now Chevy Chase. However, in the early twentieth century, the DC government used eminent domain to force the sale of their farm and replaced it with an all-white school. Between Freedom and Equality grants Pointer and his descendants their long-overdue place in American history. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Pointer, George, 1773-1832.
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Pointer, George, 1773-1832 -- Family.
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African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
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Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
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Washington (D.C.) -- History.
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| Added Author |
Green, Clara Myrick, author.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666106619 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666106615 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14245816 |
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