I. Slavery: the colonial and early national period -- II. Free black life in the antebellum period: political, legal and socio-economic status -- III. The Civil War period -- IV. Reconstruction and the late nineteenth century -- V. The early twentieth century and World War I -- VI. The twenties and the New Deal decades -- VII. World War II and the modern era.
Notes
African American resources in the Lancaster County Historical Society.
The American genealogist : being a catalogue of family histories, a bibliography of American genealogy or a list of the title pages of books and pamphlets on family history, published in America, from 1771 to date
