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Blacks who stole themselves : advertisements for runaways in the Pennsylvania gazette, 1728-1790

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5923
Date of Publication
1989.
Call Number
326 S643
Responsibility
[compiled by] Billy G. Smith and Richard Wojtowicz.
ISBN
0812281454
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication
1989.
Physical Description
222 p. : ill., facsims., map ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. [173]-178.
Summary
Reprints ads for runaway slaves in Pennsylvania. Includes a glossary, a name index that permits runaways and owners to be traced over time, a subject index that identifies specific characteristics of escapees, and a final index that notes the names of fugitives and owners who appeared in all the Gazette ads between 1728 and 1790. [from amazon.com]
Subjects
Fugitive slaves - United States
Slavery - United States
American newspapers - Pennsylvania
Fugitive slaves - United States.
African Americans
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.
Additional Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Wojtowicz, Richard.
Additional Title
Pennsylvania gazette.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 S643
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The daily occurrence docket of the Philadelphia almshouse : selected entries, 1800 - 1804 / by Billy G. Smith and Cynthia Shelton

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14389
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Call Number
905.748 PHA v. 52 (1985)
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Physical Description
p. 183 - 205.
Notes
Pennsylvania History, v. 52, 1985.
Subjects
Almhouses - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Poor - Pennsylvania
Additional Author
Shelton, Cynthia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 PHA v. 52 (1985)
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Notes and documents : the precarious freedom of Blacks in the Mid-Atlantic region : excerpts from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 - 1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14388
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v. 113 (April 1989)
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Responsibility
by Billy G. Smith and Richard Wojtowicz.
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Physical Description
p. 237 - 264.
Notes
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 113, April 1989.
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania
American newspapers - Pennsylvania
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600 - 1775.
Additional Author
Wojtowicz, Richard.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v. 113 (April 1989)
Websites
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The records of Gloria Dei Church : burials 1800 - 1804

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14509
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Call Number
905.748 PHA v. 53 (January 1986)
Responsibility
by Billy G. Smith and Susan E. Klepp.
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Physical Description
p. 56 - 79.
Notes
Pennsylvania History, v. 53, January 1986.
Subjects
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Burial - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Lutheran Church - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Church history.
Additional Author
Klepp, Susan E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 PHA v. 53 (January 1986)
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The records of Gloria Dei Church : marriages, and "remarkable occurrences", 1794 - 1806

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14391
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Call Number
905.748 PHA v. 53 (April 1986)
Responsibility
by Billy G. Smith and Susan E. Klepp.
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Physical Description
p. 125 - 151.
Notes
Pennsylvania History, v. 53, April 1986.
Subjects
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Marriage - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Lutheran Church - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Church history.
Additional Author
Klepp, Susan E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 PHA v. 53 (April 1986)
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