xxviii, 664 p. : ill., genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
African American Resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.
Summary
"Herbert G. Gutman uses quantitative records from the United States census intermixed with qualitative materials such as letters slaves wrote each other, testimony given to Government Commissions, and observations of foreign travelers to assure us that the black family was never disorganized by slavery. He aptly refutes the theory that the slave experience resulted in broken black families. He insists that the black family has always been an effective means for transmitting a black cultural heritage...The volume was stimulated by the public and academic controversy surrounding Daniel P. Moynihan's The Negro Family in America: The Case for National Actions (1965). Moynihan argued that American blacks were caught in a "tangle of pathology" resulting from the deterioration of the black family." [from Endnotes.com]
In: Pennsylvania Heritage, v. 4, no. 1 (December 1977).
Summary
"The emergence of Black churches at the beginning of the nineteenth century was crucial to the survival of Black people in Pennsylvania and in the North because it provided two key resources. First, it provided a sense of meaning and destiny grounded in hope. Secondly, the Black church provided the institutional base for the economic, social, and political struggle of Blacks, including the struggle to eliminate slavery and all forms of racism. For Blacks throughout the nineteenth century, religion was both an instrument of protest and a source of relief. " [from the article]
compiled, arranged and edited by Spencer L. Kraybill.
Place of Publication
Fairfax, Va
Publisher
Kraybill,
Date of Publication
[1972?]
Physical Description
222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Bender, H. S. and C. H. Smith. Introduction to the Mennonites.--Forming of the Brethren in Christ Church.--Works of Edward Earl Reeves-Graybill: "The Graybill Family."--Works of Ira Reist: "The Kraybill Family."--Lineage of Jacob Krebiel, 1742-
