African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Contents : Colonial Pennsylvania --- Anti-slavery Pioneers --- The Abolition Act of 1780 --- Work of the Abolition Society --- The Free Negroes Organize --- The American Colonization Society ---Garrisonian Abolitionism --- The American Anti-Slavery Society --- Negro Disfranchisement --- The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society--- The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall --- Conflict Within Abolitionism --- The Underground Railroad --- Growth of the Negro Community --- Civil War and Reconstruction --- The Struggle For Equal Rights --- Suffrage Restored --- The School Question --- Cultural Progress
Pennsylvania Historical Association, Pennsylvania State University,
Date of Publication
1966.
Physical Description
iii, 68 p. plates, ports. 23 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania history studies,
Notes
Bibliography: p. 61-68.
Summary
"Portraits of feminists, prison reformers, abolitionists, temperance advocates, labor leaders, urban progressives, and other Pennsylvanians who sought to improve the world." [from ExploreHistory.com]
