Adams family history; a history of Joseph Washington Adams and John Leedy Snyder, both of Newport, Pennsylvania, and of their ancestors and descendants
I. Slavery: the colonial and early national period -- II. Free black life in the antebellum period: political, legal and socio-economic status -- III. The Civil War period -- IV. Reconstruction and the late nineteenth century -- V. The early twentieth century and World War I -- VI. The twenties and the New Deal decades -- VII. World War II and the modern era.
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African American resources in the Lancaster County Historical Society.
