African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Contents : Colonial Pennsylvania --- Anti-slavery Pioneers --- The Abolition Act of 1780 --- Work of the Abolition Society --- The Free Negroes Organize --- The American Colonization Society ---Garrisonian Abolitionism --- The American Anti-Slavery Society --- Negro Disfranchisement --- The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society--- The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall --- Conflict Within Abolitionism --- The Underground Railroad --- Growth of the Negro Community --- Civil War and Reconstruction --- The Struggle For Equal Rights --- Suffrage Restored --- The School Question --- Cultural Progress
Being in part the genealogical and autobiographical manuscripts of Solomon P. McCurdy (1820-1890). Pertaining to the Sharp and McCurdy Families; indexed.
Pennsylvania German Society. Publications. New series. 13.
Notes
Cover title : Pastors and people, volume 1, pastors and congregations.
Contents
Part One: Pastors; Part Two: Congregations. These two sections are followed by a breakdown by counties in most of the Mid-Atlantic states. Lancaster County, pgs 301-328; Lebanon County, pgs 329-340; Berks County, pgs 233-266; Dauphin County, pgs 287-294; York, pgs 457-482.
[prepared by] The Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley.
Edition
Limited ed.
Place of Publication
Ephrata, Pa
Publisher
The Historical Society of Cocalico Valley ; Printed by Science Press,
Date of Publication
1988.
Physical Description
135 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Series
Pictorial book of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley ; 4
Notes
Limited ed. no. 1415.
LCHS has no.1420.
Summary
Includes " photographs of the tremendously diverse structures of the Cocalico Valley: area churches, schools, bridges, and businesses , plus the incomparable buildings of the Ephrata Cloister." [from the foreword]
