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]
Page 51: Four African American women, "Duquesne help, September 1901"; Nellie Brown, August 1901, African American woman; Three photos of a naked baby playing on balcony; Two unidentified women.
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Page 12: Round Top, Accomac, August 14, 1903; From Round Top, August 14, 1903; Round Top House, August 14, 1903; From Chickies Rock looking toward Marietta, August 14, 1903; Baby in carriage, two older children and an African American woman; From near Chickies Rock looking toward Columbia, August 14, 1903.
Provenance
Second of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Page 43: Unidentified stores on city street; Anna Fondersmtih and unidentified African American woman; House decorated with paper lanterns; Group of people in automobile; Two children with 147 and a half pound pumpkin grown by Walter S. Lehman; Houses decorated with patriotic bunting, flags and paper lanterns.
Provenance
Second of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
