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Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/7697d6ea-ff7d-4c6c-9b6d-912074124906
Collection
General Collection
Title
Three unidentified men in costume on the steps of the courthouse
Object ID
1-01-07-77
Date Range
1992
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Title
Three unidentified men in costume on the steps of the courthouse
Description
Three unidentified men in costume on the steps of the courthouse during Lancaster city's 250th Celebration.
Date Range
1992
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Subject
African Americans
Search Terms
Celebrations
Costumes
Courthouses
Lancaster County Courthouse
Persons of color
Uniforms
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
4 x 6 inches
Object ID
1-01-07-77
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Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/e95cf22b-2675-44cd-af41-896107814490
Collection
General Collection
Title
Girls and boys in costume on the steps of the courthouse
Object ID
1-01-07-87
Date Range
1992
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
General Collection
Title
Girls and boys in costume on the steps of the courthouse
Description
Girls and boys in costume on the steps of the courthouse during Lancaster city's 250th Celebration.
Date Range
1992
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Subject
African Americans
Search Terms
Boys
Celebrations
Costumes
Courthouses
Girls
Lancaster County Courthouse
Persons of color
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
4 x 6 inches
Object ID
1-01-07-87
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Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/2cf4ace2-049b-4ccc-ba33-369703281570
Collection
Lancaster Recreation Commission Photograph Collection
Title
Black man and boy
Object ID
LR-03-05-06
Date Range
July 1994
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Object Name
Print, Photographic
Collection
Lancaster Recreation Commission Photograph Collection
Title
Black man and boy
Description
Unidentified man and boy
Date Range
July 1994
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Subcategory
Documentary Artifact
Subject
African Americans
Search Terms
Boys
Children
Persons of color
Place
Lancaster
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Print Size
4 x 6 inches
Object ID
LR-03-05-06
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Making of African America: The four great migrations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21093
Author
Berlin, Ira,
Date of Publication
2010.
Call Number
326 B515
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Alternate Title
The making of African America.
Responsibility
by Ira Berlin.
ISBN
9780670021376
0670021377
Author
Berlin, Ira,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Viking,
Date of Publication
2010.
Physical Description
304 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Movement and place in the African American past -- The transatlantic passage -- The passage to the interior -- The passage to the north -- Global passages.
Summary
Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. This new account evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. Historian Ira Berlin finds a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos.--From publisher description.
Subjects
African Americans
Slave trade - United States
Slave trade - Atlantic Ocean
Migration, Internal - United States
Emigration and immigration.
Social science
Africa - Emigration and immigration.
United States - Slavery and bondage - History.
United States - Minorities - History.
United States - Emigration and immigration - History.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 B515
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No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African-American population and the Civil War Era

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo93
Author
Hopkins, Leroy.
Date of Publication
1993.
Antebellum Era in Pennsylvania was a period of crisis for persons of color. In his pioneer study of African-American communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania between 1780-1860 Carl Oblinger characterizes economic life in rural Pennsylvania in the following terms:' By mid-century, the new, and depressing
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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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Growing up free and black in mid-nineteenth century Lancaster County

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22297
Author
Mitchell, Faith.
Date of Publication
2011.
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Responsibility
Faith Mitchell, Ph.D.
Author
Mitchell, Faith.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory,
Date of Publication
2011.
Physical Description
pp. 102-113.
Summary
"By following the story of my great-grandmother Isabella Ford's life, and adding to it with information from available sources, I have been able to get a better understanding of the circumstances of Lancaster's free blacks. Her story provides a sense of life in mid-nineteenth century Lancaster County and shows how free black families held their own, despite an environment that was often unfriendly and that restricted their opportunities by both law and custom."
Subjects
Ford, Maria Proctor
Proctor, Jeremiah
Ford, Ellen Isabella
Proctor, James
Proctor, Hannah
Ford, John
Skerrett, Emma Victoria Crawford
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Fulton Township
African American families - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African American Methodists
Underground Railroad
Slavery - America - History
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 113, number 2/3 (2011), p. 102-113Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.113
Websites
https://lancasterh.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=26c0eacb34d45cdaf9bdaa6f6cac8b13
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Separate but equal? : residential racial segregation in Lancaster : considerations for community planning-- 1997 : a special report

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17155
Date of Publication
[1997?]
Call Number
363.51 S479
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Responsibility
by the Fair Housing Program, Lancaster County Human Relations Commission.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, PA
Publisher
Lancaster County Human Relations Commission,
Date of Publication
[1997?]
Physical Description
59 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-59).
Subjects
Discrimination in housing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Hispanic Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster City-County Human Relations Commission. Fair Housing Program.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
363.51 S479
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Race and revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9849
Author
Nash, Gary B.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
1990.
Call Number
973.0496 N249
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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
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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
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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
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On the edge of freedom : the fugitive slave issue in south central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19541
Author
Smith, David G.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
326 S645
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Responsibility
David G. Smith.
ISBN
9780823240326 (cloth : alk. paper)
0823240320 (cloth : alk. paper)
Author
Smith, David G.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Fordham University Press,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
xiv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
The North's Civil War
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The Fugitive Slave Issue on the Edge of Freedom -- South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- Thaddeus Stevens' Dilemma, Colonization, and the Turbulent Years of Early Antislavery in Adams County, 1835-39 -- Antislavery Petitioning in South Central Pennsylvania -- The Fugitive Slave Issue on Trial : The 1840s in South Central Pennsylvania -- Controversy and Christiana : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1850-51 -- Interlude: Kidnapping, Kansas, and the Rise of Race-Based Partisanship : The decline of the Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1852-57 -- Revival of the Fugitive Slave Issue, 1858-61 -- Contrabands, "White Victories," and the Ultimate Slave Hunt : Recasting the Fugitive Slave Issue in Civil War South Central Pennsylvania -- After the Shooting : South Central Pennsylvania after the Civil War -- Conclusion: The Postwar Ramifications of the Fugitive Slave Issue "On the Edge of Freedom" -- Appendix A: Selected Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1818-28 -- Appendix B: 1828 South Central Pennsylvania Petition Opposing Slavery in the District of Columbia -- Appendix C: 1847 Gettysburg African American Petition -- Appendix D: 1846 Adams County Petition -- Appendix E: 1861 Franklin County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix F: 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix G: [Second] 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix H: 1861 Doylestown, Bucks County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix I: 1861 Newtown, Bucks County Pro-Personal Liberty Law Petition.
Subjects
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania
Abolitionists - Pennsylvania
Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania.
Borderlands - Pennsylvania
Abolitionists.
African Americans.
Antislavery movements.
Borderlands.
Fugitive slaves.
Fugitive slaves
Race relations.
Underground Railroad.
Pennsylvania - Race relations - History - 19th century.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 S645
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