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Making of African America: The four great migrations

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Author: Berlin, Ira,

Date of Publication: 2010.

Call Number: 326 B515

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

The colors of courage : Gettysburg's forgotten history : immigrants, women, and African-Americans in the Civil War's defining battle

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Author: Creighton, Margaret S.,

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: c2005.

Call Number: 973.7349 C914

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Responsibility: Margaret Creighton.

ISBN: 0465014569; 9780465014569; 9780465014576; 0465014577

Author: Creighton, Margaret S.,

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Basic Books,

Date of Publication: c2005.

Physical Description: xix, 321 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308) and index.

Contents: The Gettysburg campaign : a brief chronology -- Prologue : the lay of the land; a sign of the times -- An afternoon in the badlands -- The season of disbelief -- Desolation's edge -- Flying thick like blackbirds -- Bold acts -- The wide eye of the storm -- The aftermath -- The seesaw of honor, or, How the pigpen was mightier than the sword -- Women and remembrance -- Making a living on hallowed land.

Summary: "In the summer of 1863, as Union and Confederate armies marched on southern Pennsylvania, the town of Gettysburg found itself thrust onto the center stage of war. The three days of fighting that ensued decisively turned the tide of the Civil War. In The Colors of Courage, Margaret Creighton narrates the tale of this crucial battle from the viewpoint of three unsung groups - women, immigrants, and African Americans - and reveals how wide the battle's dimensions were."; "Creighton draws on memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspapers to bring to life the individuals at the heart of her narrative. In telling the stories of these participants, Margaret Creighton has written a work of original history - a narrative that is sure to redefine the Civil War's most remarkable event."--Jacket.

Subjects: Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.; Immigrants - Pennsylvania - Gettysburg; Women, White - Pennsylvania - Gettysburg; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Gettysburg; African Americans.; Immigrants.; Military participation; Women.; Women, White.; Einwanderer.; Frau.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - African Americans.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Women.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Participation, Immigrant.; Pennsylvania - Gettysburg.; United States.; Gettysburg (Pa.) - Schlacht.; Schwarze.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7349 C914

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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

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

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

Black family research : records of post-Civil War Federal agencies at the National Archives

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Author: United States National Archives and Records Administration.

Date of Publication: 2001.

Call Number: 016.326 U58

Responsibility: compiled by Reginald Washington.

Author: United States National Archives and Records Administration.

Place of Publication: Washington, DC

Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration ,

Date of Publication: 2001.

Physical Description: Reference Information Paper 108.

Subjects: United States. - Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and abandoned lands - History - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.; United States - Commissioners of Claims - History - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.; United States - Freeman's Bank and Trust Company - History - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.; African Americans - United States; African American families.; Freedmen; Registers of births, etc.

Additional Author: Washington, Reginald.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.326 U58

Lancaster Co. Clerk of Courts (Clerk of the Peace): Returns of negro and mulatto children born after the year 1780, June 7, 1788-Nov. 13, 1793

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Call Number: Drawer 3, sec. 2: #206

Notes: Microfilm box labeled # 206.

Subjects: Lancaster County (Pa.) - Court of Quarter Sessions.; African Americans; Slave records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Free African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Slavery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Location: Lancaster History Library - Microfilm

Call Number: Drawer 3, sec. 2: #206

The Slaves' War : the Civil War in the words of former slaves

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Author: Ward, Andrew,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Call Number: 973.711 W256

Responsibility: Andrew Ward.

ISBN: 9780618634002; 0618634002; 9780547237923; 0547237928

Author: Ward, Andrew,

Place of Publication: Boston

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Physical Description: xiv, 386 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-372) and index.

Summary: The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves' theories about the causes of the Civil War to their frank assessments of major figures; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, this is a transformative vision of America's second revolution.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Slaves - Southern States - Biography.; Freedmen - United States - Biography.; African Americans - Biography.; African Americans.; Freedmen.; Slaves.; Social aspects.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - African Americans.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.; Southern States.; United States.; Biography.; History.; Personal narratives.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.711 W256

Bethel African Methodist Church in Lancaster : prolegomenon to a social history

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Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Date of Publication: 1986.

Bethel African Methodist Church in Lancaster: Prolegomenon to a Social History by Leroy Hopkins, Ph.D. in Lancaster City"s southeastern quadrant, at the juncture of North and Strawberry Streets, stands a structure which has long been connected with Lancaster"s Afro-American community: Bethel Africa

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Responsibility: by Leroy Hopkins, Ph.D.

Author: Hopkins, Leroy.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1986.

Physical Description: 205-236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 90, no. 4

Subjects: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; St. James' African Church (Lancaster, Pa.) - History.; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; African Americans - Pennsylvania - Columbia.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 90, number 4 (1986), p. 205-236Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.90

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Slavery and freedom in the age of the American Revolution

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Date of Publication: 1983.

Call Number: 326 S631

Responsibility: edited by Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman.

ISBN: 0813909694

Place of Publication: Charlottesville

Publisher: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia,

Date of Publication: 1983.

Physical Description: xxvii, 314 p. ; 24 cm.

Series: Blacks in the New World.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Slavery - United States; Slavery - America; African Americans; Blacks - America; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Influence.

Additional Author: Berlin, Ira,; Hoffman, Ronald,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 S631

A slave family

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Author: Kalman, Bobbie.

Call Number: 973.049 K14

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Responsibility: Bobbie Kalman & Amanda Bishop.

ISBN: 0778707466; 9780778707462; 077870792X; 9780778707929; 0613529081; 9780613529082

Author: Kalman, Bobbie.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Crabtree Pub.,

Physical Description: 32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.

Series: Colonial people

Notes: Includes index.

Contents: Quasheba's family -- Slavery in the colonies -- Slave families -- Marriage and children -- Helping one another -- The lives of slave children -- The education of slaves -- Field hands -- House servants -- Tradespeople -- Culture from Africa -- The cost of freedom.

Summary: Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.

Subjects: Slaves - United States - Juvenile literature.; Plantation life - United States - Juvenile literature.; African American families - Juvenile literature.; African Americans - Juvenile literature.; African American families.; African Americans.; Plantation life.; Slaves; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Juvenile literature.; United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; United States.; United States - History - 1600-1775, Colonial period - Juvenile literature.; USHISTORY-SLAVES-JUVLIT.; History.; Juvenile works.

Additional Author: Bishop, Amanda.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.049 K14

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Making of African America: The four great migrations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21093

The colors of courage : Gettysburg's forgotten history : immigrants, women, and African-Americans in the Civil War's defining battle

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20679

Websites

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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8832

Freedom by degrees : emancipation in Pennsylvania and its aftermath

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4822

Black family research : records of post-Civil War Federal agencies at the National Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14147

Lancaster Co. Clerk of Courts (Clerk of the Peace): Returns of negro and mulatto children born after the year 1780, June 7, 1788-Nov. 13, 1793

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20732

The Slaves' War : the Civil War in the words of former slaves

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21092

Bethel African Methodist Church in Lancaster : prolegomenon to a social history

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo262

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Slavery and freedom in the age of the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo10364

A slave family

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20891

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