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

of the same era. At the six- �90/4,1986 215 teenth "American Convention for promoting Abolition of Slavery and im- proving the condition of the African Race" which met on October 5, 1819 in Philadelphia the report presented by the Columbia, Pennsylvania Society is quite informative. After apologizing

newspapers of Lancaster County / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. German American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Newspapers. Lancaster (Pa.)--Newspapers. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster

/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921. Title: The oldest daily paper of Lancaster County / by F. R. Diffenderffer. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Lancaster Gazette (Lancaster, Pa.) American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. German American newspapers--Pennsylvania--Lancaster

were mustered into a regiment from Lancaster. Muster rolls on deposit in the State Archives in Harrisburg indicate men from as far away as Mississippi and England were accepted into Pennsylvania regiments. When one considers the status of African-Americans in Lancaster County and the Commonwealth in