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The impact of the Fugitive Slave Law on Harrisburg: a case study

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13184
Author
Eggert, Gerald G.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.109
  1 website  
Author
Eggert, Gerald G.
Physical Description
537-569 p.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 109, (October 1985).
This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.
Subjects
Philips, Jim.
Rawn, Charles C.
United States
Slavery - Pennsylvania - Dauphin County.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.109
Websites
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Mary Louisa Walker Roberts

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo13212
Author
Douglass, Hugh.
Call Number
905.748 OAHS v.2, no. 2
Author
Douglass, Hugh.
Notes
Octorara Area Historical Society, v. 2, no. 2d.
Subjects
Roberts, Mary Louisa Walker.
Walker family.
Roberts family.
United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 OAHS v.2, no. 2
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Breaking the backcountry : the Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754 - 1765

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19422
Author
Ward, Matthew C.
Edition
1. paperback ed.
Date of Publication
2004.
Call Number
923.26 W261
Responsibility
Matthew C. Ward.
ISBN
0822958651
9780822958659
Author
Ward, Matthew C.
Edition
1. paperback ed.
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh, Pa
Publisher
Univ. of Pittsburgh Press,
Date of Publication
2004.
Physical Description
X, 329 S : Ill., Kt.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-318) and index.
Subjects
Geschichte - 1754-1765
Pennsylvania
United States
Virginia
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.26 W261
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An accurate and interesting account of the hardships and sufferings of that band of heroes, who traversed the wilderness in the campaign against Quebec in 1775

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19425
Author
Henry, John Joseph,
Date of Publication
1812.
Call Number
090 L244g 1812
Responsibility
by John Joseph Henry, Esq.
Author
Henry, John Joseph,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
printed by William Greer ,
Date of Publication
1812.
Physical Description
225 p. ; 16 cm.
Subjects
Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776.
United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
090 L244g 1812
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Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9566
Date of Publication
c1993.
Call Number
326 W825
Responsibility
C. Peter Ripley, editor ; co-editors, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone.
ISBN
0807820725 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807844047 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication
c1993.
Physical Description
xxiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Chapter 37 is titled: William Whipper's letters.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index.
Contents
The rise of black abolitionism : the colonization controversy; the growth of black abolitionism; the rise of immediatism; moral reform; prejudice; two abolitionisms -- African Americans and the antislavery movement : blacks as advocates; slave narratives; black women abolitionists; antislavery and the black community; problems in the movement -- Black independence : a new direction; the African American press; in the common defense; antislavery politics; black antislavery tactics; by all just and necessary means -- Black abolitionists and the national crisis : the slave power; the fugitive slave law; black emigration; black nationality; blacks and John Brown -- Civil war : debating the war; the emancipation proclamation; blacks and Lincoln; the black military experience; the movement goes south; reconstruction.
Subjects
Antislavery movements - United States
Abolitionists - United States
African Americans
African American abolitionists
Slavery - Abolition
United States
Additional Author
Ripley, C. Peter,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 W825
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An autobiography : the story of the Lord's dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the colored evangelist

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8275
Author
Smith, Amanda,
Date of Publication
1987.
Call Number
922.8 S642
ISBN
0824006747 (alk. paper) :
Author
Smith, Amanda,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Garland Pub.,
Date of Publication
1987.
Physical Description
xvi, 506 p., [26] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series
Women in American Protestant religion, 1800-1930 ;
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: Chicago : Meyer, 1893.
The author lived in Lancaster County Pennsylvania when she was younger. Clifford Edmond, Jr. Collection on African American History.
African American resources at the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Subjects
Smith, Amanda, - 1837-1915.
African American evangelists - United States - Biography.
Evangelism
United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
922.8 S642
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Through other's eyes: narratives of German women travelling in nineteenth-century America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20349
Author
Worley, Linda Kraus.
Call Number
Available at F&M
Responsibility
by Linda Kraus Worley.
Author
Worley, Linda Kraus.
Physical Description
39-50 p.
Notes
In: Yearbook of German-American studies published for Society of German-American studies, v.21 (1986) available at F&M College.
Subjects
United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
Available at F&M
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Some gave all the stories of Elizabethtown's fallen heroes and the history of Memorial Day in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20446
Author
Clark, Phillip P.
Date of Publication
2016.
Call Number
974.815 ELIB C592
Responsibility
Phillip P. Clark
ISBN
9780692700358
0692700358
Author
Clark, Phillip P.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
79 p. : ill. : 23 cm.
Notes
First edition.
Subjects
Memorial day. - Elizabethtown, Pa.
United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 ELIB C592
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The Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania, 1777-1778

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11441
Author
Betz, I.H.
Call Number
905.748 PGA v.7
Responsibility
{by} I. H. Betz
Author
Betz, I.H.
Physical Description
64-68 p.
Notes
In: The Pennsylvania German, v.7, 1906.
Subjects
United States - Continental Congress.
Constitutional history - United States.
United States
York (Pa.) - History - 18th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 PGA v.7
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A passenger list of Mennonite immigrants from Russia in 1878 published from the original printed list : Passage list of Ship Strassburg from Bremen to New York, sailing 18th June, 1878

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11512
Call Number
905.748 MQR v.15
Physical Description
263-276 p.
Notes
In: Mennonite Quarterly Review, v.15, no.4, October 1941.
Subjects
Ships
United States
Russia
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
905.748 MQR v.15
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