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Into the American woods : negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier

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Author
Merrell, James Hart,
Date of Publication
2000, c1999.
Call Number
974.802 M568
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Alternate Title
Negotiators on the Pennsylvania frontier
Responsibility
James H. Merrell.
ISBN
0393046761
Author
Merrell, James Hart,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Norton,
Date of Publication
2000, c1999.
Physical Description
463 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Notes
"1st pub. as a Norton paperback 2000"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-438) and index.
Subjects
Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania.
Pioneers - Pennsylvania
Negotiation - Pennsylvania
Indians of North America - Pennsylvania
Intercultural communication - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 M568
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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
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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
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The peopling and depeopling of early Pa. Indians and colonists, 1680-1720

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Author
Sugrue, Thomas J.
Date of Publication
1992
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.116
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Author
Sugrue, Thomas J.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Hist. Soc. of Pa.
Date of Publication
1992
Physical Description
p.3-33
Notes
In: Pa. Magazine of History and Biography, v.116 (January 1992)
Subjects
Indians - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.116
Websites
https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/44737/44458
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The Robert Barber, Jr. house : a relic of Quaker hegemony

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Author
Shirk, Willis L.
Date of Publication
1994.
the remaining fourteen Conestoga Indians together and placed them in the �86 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY workhouse adjacent to the Lancaster jail for their own protection. Two weeks later, the Paxton Boys descended suddenly on Lancaster Town, broke into the workhouse, and
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Responsibility
by Willis L. Shirk, Jr.
Author
Shirk, Willis L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1994.
Physical Description
[79]-98 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 96, no. 3
Subjects
Barber family.
Barber, Robert.
Society of Friends - Pennsylvania
Architecture, Georgian - Pennsylvania - Columbia.
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 96, number 3 (1994), p. 79-98Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.96
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