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No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African-American population and the Civil War Era

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Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Date of Publication: 1993.

Columbia, January 15, 1836; on deposit at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg. 5 Ibid. 6 March 17, 1857. 7 cf. reference in the July 11, 1863 edition of the Daily Evening Express. 8 William A. Gladstone, United States Colored Troops, 1863-67, Thomas Publ., Gettysburg, PA, 1990, 11. 9 Col. John B

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Responsibility: by Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. Ph.D.

Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1993.

Physical Description: [20]-40 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.95, no.1

Subjects: Confederate States of America. - Army - History.; United States. - Army - History; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster; Lancaster (Pa.) - Race relations.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 95, number 1 (1993), p. 20-40Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.95

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The Negro in the American Revolution

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Author: Quarles, Benjamin.

Date of Publication: c1996.

Call Number: 973.315 Q1

Responsibility: Benjamin Quarles ; with a new foreword by Thad W. Tate and a new introduction by Gary B. Nash.

ISBN: 0807846031 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Author: Quarles, Benjamin.

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg Va., by the University of North Carolina Press,

Date of Publication: c1996.

Physical Description: xxxiii, 231 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Originally published: 1961.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-223) and index.

Subjects: African Americans; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - African Americans.

Additional Corporate Author: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.315 Q1

Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time; being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders

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Author: Watson, John F.

Date of Publication: 1891.

Call Number: 974.811 W339

Responsibility: By John F. Watson ... Enlarged, with many revisions and additions, by Willis P. Hazard...

Author: Watson, John F.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: E. S. Stuart,

Date of Publication: 1891.

Physical Description: 3 v. fronts., illus., plates, port. 25 cm.

Notes: The third volume of this ed. was prepared at the publisher's request, by W. P. Hazard.

Subjects: Pennsylvania - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs.

Additional Author: Hazard, Willis P.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.811 W339

Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom

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Date of Publication: c1998.

Call Number: 326 R386

Responsibility: edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller.

ISBN: 1565844254 (set) :

Place of Publication: New York : Washington, D.C

Publisher: The New Press ; in association with The Library of Congress,

Date of Publication: c1998.

Physical Description: lii, 355 p. : ports. ; 24 cm. + 2 sound cassettes.

Notes: "Published by the New Press, in conjunction with the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution, to accompany the book Remembering slavery, edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller" -- Cassettes.; "This book is published in conjunction with two sixty-minute audio tapes of live recordings and dramatic readings."--Jacket.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-348) and index.

Contents: Slavery as memory and history -- The faces of power: slaves and owners -- Work and slave life -- Family life in slavery -- Slave culture -- Slaves no more: Civil War and the coming of freedom -- Appendixes.

Subjects: Slavery - United States; African Americans; United States - History - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Berlin, Ira,; Favreau, Marc.; Miller, Steven F.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 R386

Bloody dawn : the Christiana Riot and racial violence in the antebellum North

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Author: Slaughter, Thomas P.

Date of Publication: 1991.

Call Number: 974.80323 S631

Responsibility: Thomas P. Slaughter.

ISBN: 0195046331 :

Author: Slaughter, Thomas P.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-239) and index.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Contents: Chapters: THE ESCAPE // BLACK IMAGES IN WHITE MINDS // THE CHASE // THE RIOT // AFTERMATH // STRATAGEMS // THE TRIAL // RACE, VIOLENCE , AND LAW // RACE, RIOTS AND LAW // CONCLUSION

Summary: "This book tells the story of a riot that erupted on September 11, 1851 at Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and of the people whose lives were changed forever by that violent event. Shortly after dawn on that day, Lancaster's African-American community rose up in arms against attempted enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; and, in the course of saving four men from the federal posse charged to reenslave them, rioters killed the Maryland farmer who was trying to reclaim his human chattel." [from the introduction]

Subjects: Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana; Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana; Violence - Pennsylvania - Christiana; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana; Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80323 S631

Deaths reported by Der Libanon Demokrat : a German language newspaper published at Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 1832-1864

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Author: Heilman, Robert A.

Date of Publication: Â©1990, 2009.

Call Number: 974.819 H466d

Responsibility: translated and transcribed by Robert A. Heilman.

ISBN: 155613410X; 9781556134104

Author: Heilman, Robert A.

Place of Publication: Bowie, Md

Publisher: Heritage Books,

Date of Publication: Â©1990, 2009.

Physical Description: 130 pages ; 21 cm

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: American newspapers - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Abstracts.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Lebanon County - Genealogy.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Genealogy.; American newspapers.; German Americans.; Registers of births, etc.; Lebanon County (Pa.) - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.; Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - Lebanon County.; United States, Pennsylvania, Lebanon, Lebanon - Obituaries.; United States, Pennsylvania, Lebanon, Lebanon - Newspapers.; United States, Pennsylvania, Lebanon - Obituaries.; Abstracts.; Genealogy.

Additional Title: Libanon Demokrat.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.819 H466d

No crooked death : Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and the lynching of Zachariah Walker

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Author: Downey, Dennis B.,

Date of Publication: c1991.

Call Number: 364.134 D748

Responsibility: Dennis B. Downey and Raymond M. Hyser.

ISBN: 0252017390 (alk. paper)

Author: Downey, Dennis B.,

Place of Publication: Urbana

Publisher: University of Illinois Press,

Date of Publication: c1991.

Physical Description: xv, 174 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series: Blacks in the New World

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.

Summary: An African American steelworker, Zachariah Walker, was burned to death by a mob outside Coatesville, PA, on August 13, 1911. He was accused of killing Edgar Rice, a white security guard and a former borough policeman. Nationwide outrage led to the NAACP's national anti-ynching campaign and inspired Pennsylvania's 1923 anti-lynching law.; Chapter 1- Tells of the events at the time of the lynching; Chapter 2- Talks about the community reaction to the murder, the investigation, and the Grand Jury indictment of 15 men and boys; Chapters 3 & 4- Discusses the 8 months of trials that failed to convict any of those charged; Chapter 5- Discusses the lynching and it's relationship to demographic and social changes taking place in Coatesville and the nation.

Subjects: Walker, Zachariah, - d. 1911.; Lynching - Pennsylvania - Chester County; African Americans; Trials (Murder) - Pennsylvania - Coatesville.; Coatesville (Pa.) - Race relations.

Additional Author: Hyser, Raymond M.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 364.134 D748

The Great Wagon Road : from Philadelphia to the South- How Scotch-Irish and Germanics settled the Uplands

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Author: Rouse, Parke,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Call Number: 973.2 R873

Responsibility: by Parke Rouse, Jr.

Author: Rouse, Parke,

Place of Publication: [Richmond, Va.]

Publisher: Dietz Press,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Physical Description: x, 292 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Notes: Originally published, New York : McGraw-Hill, 1973.; Reprinted 2001.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-276) and index.; "The heavily traveled Great Wagon Road was the primary route for the early settlement of the Southern United States, particularly the "backcountry". Although a wide variety of settlers traveled southward on the road, two dominant cultures emerged. The German Palatines and Scotch-Irish American immigrants arrived in huge numbers because of unendurable conditions in Europe... Beginning at the port of Philadelphia, where many immigrants entered the colonies, the Great Wagon Road passed through the towns of Lancaster and York in southeastern Pennsylvania. Turning southwest, the road crossed the Potomac River and entered the Shenandoah Valley near present-day Martinsburg, West Virginia. It continued south in the valley via the Great Warriors' Trail (also called the Indian Road), which was established by centuries of Indian travel over ancient trails created by migrating buffalo herds. The Shenandoah portion of the road is also known as the Valley Pike. The Treaty of Lancaster in 1744 had established colonists' rights to settle along the Indian Road. Although traffic on the road increased dramatically after 1744, it was reduced to a trickle during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) from 1756 to 1763. But after the war ended, it was said to be the most heavily traveled main road in America. South of the Shenandoah Valley, the road reached the Roanoke River at the town of Big Lick (today, Roanoke). South of Roanoke, the Great Wagon Road was also called the Carolina Road. At Roanoke, a road forked southwest, leading into the upper New River Valley and on to the Holston River in the upper Tennessee Valley. From there, the Wilderness Road led into Kentucky, ending at the Ohio River where flatboats were available for further travel into the Midwest and even to New Orleans. From Big Lick/Roanoke, after 1748, the Great Wagon Road passed through the Maggoty Gap (also called Maggodee) to the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Continuing south through the Piedmont region, it passed through the present-day North Carolina towns of Winston-Salem, Salisbury, and Charlotte and sites of earlier Indian settlements on the historic Indian Trading Path. The Great Wagon Road ultimately reached Augusta, Georgia, on the Savannah River, a distance of more than 800 miles (1,300 km) from Philadelphia." [wikipedia]

Contents: Chapters: pt. 1. The Appalachian warriors' path. The search for Eldorado -- War among the Iroquois -- pt. 2. The Philadelphia wagon road. Germans in Pennsylvania -- Enter the Scotch-Irish -- A Moravian journey to Carolina -- Along the way South -- Presbyterians in a new land -- Mapping the great mountains -- Bethabara and New Salem -- The threat from the French -- Life in the Appalachians -- pt. 3. The wilderness trail. The wagon road turns West -- The saga of Castle's Woods -- Apostle of the frontier -- pt. 4. A frontier in danger. Andrew Jackson of the Waxhaws -- The exodus of the Quakers -- "The Old Wagoner" against the king -- Conestoga's gift -- Hospitality, North and South -- The spirit of Luther -- In the cabins along the road -- Tuckahoe versus Cohee -- pt. 5. Division and reunion. Stagecoaches and turnpikes -- Great days of the horse -- The Cherokees go West -- The day Doctor Junkin drove North -- Hot heads and cold bodies -- A road is reunited.

Subjects: Great Wagon Road.; Migration, Internal.; Roads; Great Philadelphia Wagon Road.; Trails - Southern States.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.2 R873

Race and revolution

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Author: Nash, Gary B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 1990.

Call Number: 973.0496 N249

Responsibility: Gary B. Nash.

ISBN: 0945612117 (alk. paper)

Author: Nash, Gary B.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: Madison

Publisher: Madison House,

Date of Publication: 1990.

Physical Description: xi, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: The Merrill Jensen lectures in constitutional studies

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index.

Summary: "The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788. Reversing the conventional view that blames slavery on the South's social and economic structures, Nash stresses the role of the northern states in the failure to abolish slavery. It was northern racism and hypocrisy as much as southern intransigence that buttressed "the peculiar institution." Nash also shows how economic and cultural factors intertwined to result not in an apparently judicious decision of the new American nation but rather its most significant lost opportunity. Race and Revolution describes the free black community's response to this failure of the revolution's promise, its vigorous and articulate pleas for justice, and the community's successes in building its own African-American institutions within the hostile environment of early nineteenth-century America. Included with the text of Race and Revolution are nineteen rare and crucial documents-letters, pamphlets, sermons, and speeches-which provide evidence for Nash's controversial and persuasive claims. From the words of Anthony Benezet and Luther Martin to those of Absalom Jones and Caesar Sarter, readers may judge the historical record for themselves. 'In reality,' argues Nash, 'the American Revolution represents the largest slave uprising in our history.' Race and Revolution is the compelling story of that failed quest for the promise of freedom." [from the publisher]

Subjects: Antislavery movements - United States.; Abolitionists - United States; African Americans; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - African Americans.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Social aspects.; United States - History - Confederation, 1783-1789.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.0496 N249

Journal of Capt. Jonathan Heart on the march with his company from Connecticut to Fort Pitt, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from the seventh of September, to the twelfth of October, 1785, inclusive : to which is added the Dickinson-Harmar correspondence of 1784-5 ; the whole illustrated with notes and preceded by a biographical sketch of Captain Heart by Consul Willshire Butterfield

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Author: Heart, Jonathan,

Date of Publication: 1885.

Call Number: 923.5 H436b

Author: Heart, Jonathan,

Place of Publication: Albany

Publisher: J. Munsell's Sons,

Date of Publication: 1885.

Physical Description: xv, 94 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: "Edition of 150 copies."; Includes Dickinson-Harmar correspondence of 1784-5.

Subjects: Heart, Jonathan, - 1748-1791.; United States. - Army. - Infantry, 1st.; Indians of North America - Ohio River Valley.; Ohio River Valley - History.; Pennsylvania - Description and travel.; Pittsburgh (Pa.) - History.; United States - History - Confederation, 1783-1789.

Additional Author: Butterfield, Consul Willshire,; Dickinson, John,; Harmar, Josiah,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.5 H436b

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