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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

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

Lest we forget : the passage from Africa to slavery and emancipation

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Author: Thomas, Velma Maia.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: c1997.

Call Number: 326 T462

Responsibility: Velma Maia Thomas.

ISBN: 0609600303 (alk. paper); 0609800108 (alk. paper)

Author: Thomas, Velma Maia.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Crown Trade Paperbacks,

Date of Publication: c1997.

Physical Description: 32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.

Notes: "A three-dimensional interactive book with photographs and documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-32).; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Slavery - United States; Africans - America; Slave-trade - America; Antislavery movements - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 T462

The Black abolitionist papers

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Date of Publication: c1985-c1992.

Call Number: 973.0496 B627

Responsibility: C. Peter Ripley, editor ; Jeffrey S. Rossbach, associate editor ... [et al.].

ISBN: 0807816256 (v. 1)

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,

Date of Publication: c1985-c1992.

Physical Description: 5 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents: v. 1. The British Isles, 1830-1865 -- v. 2. Canada, 1830-1865 -- v. 3. The United States, 1830-1846 -- v. 4. The United States, 1847-1858. -- v. 5. The United States, 1859-1865.

Subjects: Antislavery movements - United States - Sources.; African American abolitionists - Sources.; Abolitionists - Sources.; African Americans - Sources.

Additional Author: Ripley, C. Peter,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.0496 B627

Nativism and slavery : the northern Know Nothings and the politics of the 1850's

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Author: Anbinder, Tyler.

Date of Publication: 1992.

Call Number: 320.973 S532

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Responsibility: Tyler Anbinder.

ISBN: 0195072332; 9780195072334

Author: Anbinder, Tyler.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1992.

Physical Description: xv, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-310) and index.

Summary: Although the United States has always portrayed itself as a sanctuary for the world's victim's of poverty and oppression, anti-immigrant movements have enjoyed remarkable success throughout American history. None attained greater prominence than the Order of the Star Spangled Banner, a fraternal order referred to most commonly as the Know Nothing party. Vowing to reduce the political influence of immigrants and Catholics, the Know Nothings burst onto the American political scene in 1854, and by the end of the following year they had elected eight governors, more than one hundred congressmen, and thousands of other local officials including the mayors of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago. After their initial successes, the Know Nothings attempted to increase their appeal by converting their network of lodges into a conventional political organization, which they christened the "American Party." Recently, historians have pointed to the Know Nothings' success as evidence that ethnic and religious issues mattered more to nineteenth-century voters than better-known national issues such as slavery. In this important book, however, Anbinder argues that the Know Nothings' phenomenal success was inextricably linked to the firm stance their northern members took against the extension of slavery. Most Know Nothings, he asserts, saw slavery and Catholicism as interconnected evils that should be fought in tandem. Although the Know Nothings certainly were bigots, their party provided an early outlet for the anti-slavery sentiment that eventually led to the Civil War. Anbinder's study presents the first comprehensive history of America's most successful anti-immigrant movement, as well as a major reinterpretation of the political crisis that led to the Civil War.

Subjects: American Party.; American Party; Nativism.; Antislavery movements - United States.; Know-Nothings.; United States - Politics and government - 1853-1857.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.; Politics - History, 1845-1861; United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 320.973 S532

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Freedom by degrees : emancipation in Pennsylvania and its aftermath

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Author: Nash, Gary B.

Date of Publication: 1991.

Call Number: 326 N249

Responsibility: Gary B. Nash, Jean R. Soderlund.

ISBN: 0195045831 (alk. paper)

Author: Nash, Gary B.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: xvi, 249 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-236) and index.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Summary: During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, only Pennsylvania had extricated itself from slavery, the triumph, historians have argued, of Quaker moralism and the philosophy of natural rights. With exhaustive research of individual acts of freedom, slave escapes, legislative action, and anti-slavery appeals, Nash and Soderlund penetrate beneath such broad generalizations and find a more complicated process at work. Defiant runaway slaves joined Quaker abolitionists like Anthony Benezet and members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to end slavery and slave owners shrewdly calculated how to remove themselves from a morally bankrupt institution without suffering financial loss by freeing slaves as indentured servants, laborers, and cottagers.

Subjects: Slaves - Pennsylvania.; Slavery - Pennsylvania; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865.; Slavery - Abolition - History; Pennsylvania

Additional Author: Soderlund, Jean R.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 N249

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.

struggle against slavery; by placing his and his race's situation within the context of freedom of speech, a basic constitutional right of all Americans, Smith apparently assumes that the constitutional guarantees automatically applied to the African-American. Denial of that fact verified that the promise

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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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Finding a place called home : a guide to African-American genealogy and historical identity

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Author: Woodtor, Dee.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 1999.

Call Number: 929.1 W898

Responsibility: Dee Parmer Woodtor.

ISBN: 037540595X

Author: Woodtor, Dee.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Random House,

Date of Publication: 1999.

Physical Description: xi, 452 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-439) and index.

Subjects: African Americans

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929.1 W898

Directory of African American collections in Greater Philadelphia and selected suburban areas

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Date of Publication: 1998

Call Number: 016.2896 A258

Alternate Title: African American collections in Greater Philadelphia and selected suburban areas

Responsibility: compiled and edited by Margaret Jerrido, George Brightbill, Brenda Galloway-Wright.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Temple University, Samuel Paley Library, Urban Archives,

Date of Publication: 1998

Physical Description: vi, 134 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: "This project was support [sic] by a Grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission."; "In most cases directory/collection entries were prepared by the repositories themselves."--p. vi.

Subjects: African Americans - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Additional Author: Jerrido, Margaret.; Brightbill, George.; Galloway-Wright, Brenda.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.2896 A258

Let my people go : the story of the underground railroad and the growth of the abolition movement

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Author: Buckmaster, Henrietta.

Date of Publication: c1992.

Call Number: 973.7115 B927

Responsibility: by Henrietta Buckmaster ; with a new introduction by Darlene Clark Hine.

ISBN: 0872498654

Author: Buckmaster, Henrietta.

Place of Publication: Columbia, S.C

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, published in cooperation with the Institute for Southern Studies and the South Caroliniana Society of the University of South Carolina,

Date of Publication: c1992.

Physical Description: xxvi, 398 p. : map ; 23 cm.

Series: Southern classics series

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-388) and index.

Subjects: Underground railroad.; Fugitive slaves - United States.; Antislavery movements - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 B927

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