Hale Columbia. Columbia, Pa., medical record, 1893-1905: A true and complete study of infectious disease & medicine in a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century
Contains extensive footnotes and citations. Indexed.
Summary
"From 1893 until 1905 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania required local municipalities to record vital statistics such as births, deaths, and cases of infectious disease. The record for the community of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., survives in the county archives and is a valuable record of one community's struggle to contain diseases that are seldom encountered today: smallpox, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis. Within these pages, one can learn about the diseases and the treatments available in that time period and meet the physicians and community leaders who were in the front lines of the sturggle." [book jacket]
Chapters: The Institutions/ The Diseases/ The Cures/ Medical Education in the 1800s/ The Physicians of Columbia/ The Ledger/ Annotations
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-351) and index.
Contents
I. The New World -- II. The Gathering Storm -- III. Cambridge and Boston -- IV. New York City -- V. The New Jersey Campaign -- VI. Fort Pitt -- VII. Wyoming -- VIII. The Sullivan Expedition -- IX. Yorktown -- X. Newburgh and New Windsor -- XI. Lancaster -- Rock Ford -- Afterword -- Appendix A & B.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.
Contents
A short history of fugitives in America and an African named James Somerset -- The original meaning of the fugitive slave clause -- The Fugitive Slave Act, kidnapping, and the powers of dual sovereigns -- The rights of slaveholders and those of free Blacks in Pennsylvania's Personal Liberty Law of 1826 -- Black sailors, kidnapped freemen, and a crisis in northern fugitive slave jurisprudence -- Arresting Margaret -- Arresting Edward Prigg -- Before the court -- Deciding Prigg -- After the court.
Summary
Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid claim to Margaret, who eventually married a free black man and moved to Pennsylvania. Then, John Ashmore's widow sent Edward Prigg to Pennsylvania to claim Margaret as a runaway. Prigg seized Margaret and her children, one of them born in Pennsylvania and forcibly removed them to Maryland in violation of Pennsylvania law. In the ensuing uproar, Prigg was indicted for kidnapping under Pennsylvania's personal liberty law. Maryland, however, blocked his extradition, setting the stage for a remarkable Supreme Court case in 1842.
Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, primo. : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1760, in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord George II. by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued by adjournments to the twenty-sixth day of September, 1761, in the first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George III. &c
Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, secundo. : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1761, in the first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George III. by the grace of God, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued by adjournments to the twenty-sixth day of March, 1762
