Convention for promoting the Abolition of Slavery and improving the condition of the African race" held in Philadelphia on October 5, 1819 illuminates the relationship between Columbia Blacks and the majority community. �Four abolition societies met in Philadelphia that day—from New York, Pennsylvania

lately come from Connecticut to Lancaster County. And he it was who started out of the Courier, The Columbia Spy and Literary Register. The writer examined a copy of the Courier, dated June 5, 1830, and has in his possession the first number of the Spy, dated June 17, 1830; so that Mr. Boswell purchased

three times that of the majority population. Such a rate of increase in the Black population was bound to have a detrimental impact on race relations,' especially since the dominant mood in White-Black relations in Colonial Pennsylvania was fear and animosity. Blacks in Colonial Pennsylvania were the

The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period