Introduction -- Background -- Captured at Trenton -- Imprisonment of the Hessians -- Employment of the prisoners -- Inducements to remain in America -- Location of employment sites -- Hessian prisoners associated with the Cornwall Iron Furnace -- The list of prisoners -- The list of employers -- Summary -- Prisoners belived to have stayed in America -- Endnotes -- Notes on prisoner documentation.
"... Proceedings of the Black History in Pennsylvania Conference held in Pittsburgh on April 5 and 6, 1979"--Introd.
Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Part 1. Early Black education -- Part 2. Black life and labor in modern industrial Pennsylvania -- Part 3. Black genealogy and historiography -- Part 4. Curriculum development in Pennsylvania Black history.
An exhibition and catalogue researched and prepared by Anita Schorsch. March 28 through May 23, 1976, William Penn Memorial Museum, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. June 1 through July 15, 1976, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York.
Edition
[First ed.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Publisher
The Main Street Press,
Date of Publication
1976]
Physical Description
unpaged [86] p. : 75 figures (some col.) ; 21 x 21 cm.
Contents: Pennsylvania's State Houses and Capitols, by Hubertis Cummings. -- Stephen Hills and the building of Pennsylvania's first Capitol, by Hubertis Cummings. -- The Vision of William Penn: mural painting in the Capitol of Pennsylvania, by Violet Oakley.
