Suggested Readings:
Allen, William
C. “Capitol Construction,” American
Visions, Feb./Mar. 1995.
Allen, William C. The
United States Capitol: A Brief Architectural
History. Washington, D. C.:
U. S. Government Printing, 2001.
Arnebeck, Bob. Through a Fiery Trial:
Building Washington, 1790-1800. Lanham:
Madison Books, 1991.
Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. First Freed: Washington, D. C., in the Emancipation
Era. Washington, D. C.: Howard University Press, 2002.
Clay, William L. Just
Permanent Interests: Black Americans in Congress
1870-1991. New York: Amistad
Press, Inc., 1992.
Conner, Jane Hollenbeck. Birthstone
of the White House and Capitol. Virginia
Beach: The Donning Company
Publishers, 2005.
Harris, C. M., ed. Papers
of William Thornton: Volume One, 1781-1802. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1995.
Kapsch,
Robert J. “Building Liberty’s
Capital: Black Labor and the New Federal City,” American
Visions, Feb./Mar. 1995.
Medford, Edna Greene. “ 'There
was so many degrees in slavery’: Unfree
Labor in an Upper South, Mixed
Farming Community in the Antebellum Period,” Slavery
and Abolition, 14 (August,
1993): 35-47.
Robinson, Randall. The Debt:
What America Owes to Blacks. New York:
Dutton, 2000.
