Examination of the records of the Baltimore City and County Jail dockets for 1831 through 1864 showing records of prisoners who were identified as runaway slaves in addition to deserting seamen, runaway indentured servants, deserting soldiers, and runaway apprentices.
Precious keepsakes -- Wilson's ashes -- How to begin -- Art of interviewing -- Making a slave -- Tracing slave ancestors -- Looking for freed persons -- African connections -- Health matters -- Healing through storytelling -- Twelve keys to health, wealth, and success -- Restoring the family.
"Harry Bradshaw Matthews' history discusses antislavery movements in African American communities in New York State, as well as Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and their role in national movements during the 19th century. His identification and discussion of black leaders, historic sites, and instruction on conducting genealogical research is an outstanding addition that enhances the work. By compiling hundreds of illustrations consisting of newspaper articles, editorials, notices, and the name indexes of the 20th and 26th Regiments of the United Sates Colored Troops, Matthews gives a unique wealth of genealogical information that is a treasure-trove sure to aid scholars and family historians for years to come." [from GoodReads.com]
Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-297) and index.
Contents
Enslaved Africans in early Pennsylvania --- African Resistance to Slavery --- The Underground Railroad --- The Fugitive Slave Law of1850 --- Black Enfranchisement --- The Question of Emigrationor Migration --- The Role of the Church --- Progress throughEducation --- Black Men and Women of letters --- EarlyPhiladelphia entrepreneurs --- Black Inventors and Scientists ---African Americans in Medicine --- African Americans in the Media--- Black Americans in Performing Arts ( Dance , Theater , Music, Film, and Television ) --- Black Artists --- Black Athletes --- A Guide to Historic Places
Summary
An illustrated biographical guide to some of the distinguished Afro-Americans of Pennsylvania.
edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith.
ISBN
0271016868 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271016876 (paperback : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
University Park, PA : Harrisburg, PA
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
xv, 519 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Introduction : Pennsylavania's African American history : a review of the literature / Joe W. Trotter Jr. -- Slaves and slave owners in colonial Philadelphia / Gary B. Nash -- Black women in colonial Pennsylvania / Jean R. Soderlund -- "Since they got those separate churches" : Afro-Ameriacn and racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky -- Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia : a study of ex-slaves, freeborn, and socioeconomic decline / Theodore Hershberg -- "Freedom, or the matyr's grave" : Black Pittsburgh's aid to the fugitive slave / R.J.M. Blackett -- The Forten-Purvis women of Philadelphia and the American antislavery crusade / Janice Sumler-Lewis -- No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African American population and the Civil War era / Leroy T. Hopkins -- Nineteenth-century Philadelphia Black militant : Octavius V. Catto (1839-1871) / Harry C. Silcox -- "Two steps forward, a step-and-a-half back" : Harrisburg's African American community in the nineteenth cerntury / Gerald G. Eggert -- The impact of the "new immigration" on the Black worker : Steelton, Pennsylvania, 1880-1920 / John E. Bodnar -- Migration and jobs : the new Black workers in Pittsburgh, 1916-1930 / Peter Gottlieb -- The Black migration to Philadelphia : a 1924 profile / Frederic Miller -- The Philadelphia Race Riot of 1918 / V.P. Franklin -- And the results showed promise...physicians, childbirth, and Southern Black migrant women, 1916-1930 : Pittsburgh as a case study / Carolyn Leonard Carson -- Black workers, defense industries, and federal agencies in Pennsylvania, 1941-1945 / Merl E. Reed -- The Black church in industrializing Western Pensylvania, 1870-1950 / Dennis C. Dickerson -- Double burden : the Black experience in Pittsburgh / Laurence Glasco -- Public housing, isolation, and the urban underclass : Philadelphia's Richard Allen Homes, 1941-1965 / John Bauman, Norman P. Hummon, and Edward K. Muller -- Race and neighborhood transition / Elijah Anderson.
