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.
Notes
African American resources in the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Guide to the microfilm of the miscellaneous manuscripts of the Revolutionary War era, 1771-1791 (manuscript group 275) in the Pennsylvania State Archives, 1 roll : a microfilm project of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Guide to the microfilm of the records of Pennsylvania's revolutionary governments, 1775-1790 (record group 27) in the Pennsylvania State Archives, 54 rolls : a microfilm project
sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities ; Harry E. Whipkey and Roland M. Baumann, project director, Martha L. Simonetti, assistant project director ; Roland M. Baumann, editor, Douglas H. West, editorial associate.
Oaths of allegiance, Allegiance Book #1, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1777 : copy of oaths of allegiance taken before justices of Bucks County, Pennsylvania as recorded in the above named book in the office of the Register of Wills at Doylestown, Pennsylvania
