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Slavery & the underground railroad in south central Pennsylvania

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Author
Wingert, Cooper H.,
Date of Publication
2016.
Call Number
973.7115 W769
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Slavery and the underground railroad in south central Pennsylvania
Responsibility
Cooper H. Wingert.
ISBN
9781467119733
1467119733
Author
Wingert, Cooper H.,
Place of Publication
Charleston, SC
Publisher
The History Press,
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
158 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index.
Contents
Lives on the frontier -- The Quaker colony -- Slavery and the Rise of South Central Pennyslvania -- Revolutionary Times -- Defying abolition -- "The General pressure of the Times" -- "No Doubt She Is Somewhere in Adams County" -- Sons of the Revolution, Fathers of Abolition -- "Come in and Take Thy Breakfast" -- Confederate Invasion -- "God Plead My Cause"
Summary
"Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsyvlania struggled with slavery. The institution lingered locally for more than fifty years, although it was virtually extinct everywhere else within Pennsylvania. Gradually, antislavery views prevailed. The Appalachian Mountains and the Susquehanna River provided natural cover for fleeing slaves, causing an influx of travel along the Underground Railraod. Locals like WIlliam Wright and James McAllister assisted these runaways while publically advocating to abolish slavery." -- page [4] of cover.
Subjects
Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania.
Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania
Fugitive slaves
Antislavery movements.
Underground Railroad.
Pennsylvania - History - 19th century.
Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 W769
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The ground swallowed them up : slavery and the underground railroad in York County, Pa

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Author
Mingus, Scott L.
Date of Publication
2016.
©2016
Call Number
973.7115 M664
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Scott Mingus.
ISBN
9780979291555
0979291550
Author
Mingus, Scott L.
Place of Publication
York, Pa
Publisher
York County History Center,
Date of Publication
2016.
©2016
Physical Description
x, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Dr. Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Foreword / June Burk Lloyd -- Slavery in Pennsylvania and the early abolitionist movement -- The early growth of the Underground Railroad -- Prigg v. Pennsylvania -- An open pathway for fugitives -- From discord toward dissolution -- The bloody road to emancipation -- Afterword / James McClure -- Appendix A : Reported Underground Railroad conductors in York County -- Appendix B : The slaveholder's prayer.
Subjects
Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Historic sites - Pennsylvania.
African Americans.
Fugitive slaves.
Historic sites.
Underground Railroad.
York County (Pa.) - History.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - York County.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 M664
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The general position of Lancaster County in Negro slavery

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Author
Bausman, Lottie M.
Date of Publication
1911
hemisphere. It is most natural, therefore, that our own thirteen colonies did not escape this traffic; but it is sad to note the awful price they had to pay to remove the evil once established, that price—hu- manity. Portugal began the African slave trade in modern Europe and America, bringing slaves from
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Responsibility
by Miss Lottie M. Bausman.
Author
Bausman, Lottie M.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1911
Physical Description
[5]-21 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 1
Subjects
Slavery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Slaves - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Population.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 15, number 1 (1911), p. 5-21Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.15
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The liberty line; the legend of the underground railroad

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Author
Gara, Larry
Date of Publication
[1961]
Call Number
973.7115 G212
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Author
Gara, Larry
Place of Publication
Lexington
Publisher
University of Kentucky Press
Date of Publication
[1961]
Physical Description
ix, 201 p. 24 cm.
Notes
" The underground railroad—with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains—has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propganda, postwar reminiscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to much popular belief, however, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escape. They carried out their runs, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return. The Liberty Line puts slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom. "
Bibliographical footnotes.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
CONTENTS 1. The Legendary Railroad 3. The Road to the North 2. Slavery and Freedom 4. A Deep-Laid Scheme 5. Friends of the Fugitive 6. The Fugitive Issue 7. The Roots of a Legend 8. Reminiscence and Romance 164
Subjects
Underground railroad.
Fugitive slaves - United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 G212
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The Underground Railroad

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Author
Blockson, Charles L.
Date of Publication
1989, c1987.
Call Number
973.7115 B651u
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Charles L. Blockson.
ISBN
0425115887 (pbk)
Author
Blockson, Charles L.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Berkley,
Date of Publication
1989, c1987.
Physical Description
xi, 290 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 265-271.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Underground railroad.
Fugitive slaves - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 B651u
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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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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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Gibbons family

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Call Number
Gibbons
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Family files are created for Lancaster County families. They may contain correspondence about a family, short genealogies and charts, photocopies of inventories and accounts, letters, etc. The size of any particular family file varies greatly.
Subjects
Gibbons family.
Slaves.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Family File
Call Number
Gibbons
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The underground railroad. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author; together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders, and most liberal aiders and advisers, of the road

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Author
Still, William,
Edition
Rev. ed.
Date of Publication
[c1871]
Call Number
973.7115 S857
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By William Still . . . Illustrated with 70 fine engravings by Bensell, Schell and others, and portraits from photographs from life . . .
Author
Still, William,
Edition
Rev. ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa., Cincinnati, O. [etc.]
Publisher
People's Publishing Company
Date of Publication
[c1871]
Physical Description
780, [5] p. incl. front., illus. plates, ports. 25 cm.
Notes
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Underground railroad.
Fugitive slaves - United States.
Slavery - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 S857
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The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania

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Author
Blockson, Charles L.
Date of Publication
c1981.
Call Number
973.7115 B651a
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Responsibility
by Charles L. Blockson.
ISBN
0933184212
0933184220 (pbk.)
Author
Blockson, Charles L.
Place of Publication
Jacksonville, N.C
Publisher
Flame International,
Date of Publication
c1981.
Physical Description
vii, 227 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 212-220.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Underground railroad - Pennsylvania.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 B651a
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The Pilgrim's pathway : the underground railroad in Lancaster County

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Author
Spotts, Charles Dewey
Date of Publication
1966.
Call Number
974.815 LACO S765
973.7115 S765
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by Charles D. Spotts.
Author
Spotts, Charles Dewey
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Franklin and Marshall College Library,
Date of Publication
1966.
Physical Description
56 p. : maps, photos. ; 23 cm.
Series
Community historians annual, vol. 5, no. 6
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
African American Resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.
Subjects
Fugitive slaves - United States.
Underground railroad - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 LACO S765
973.7115 S765
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