AT THE THRESHOLD OF LIBERTY CHEESE Use the convertible chain strap

Use the convertible chain strap with padded shoulder piece to wear as a shoulder bag or shorten it to hand carry

Natural woven purse

and French knots

Glass infuser

AT THE THRESHOLD OF LIBERTY CHEESE Use the convertible chain strapThe 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