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Freedom by degrees : emancipation in Pennsylvania and its aftermath

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Author: Nash, Gary B.

Date of Publication: 1991.

Call Number: 326 N249

Responsibility: Gary B. Nash, Jean R. Soderlund.

ISBN: 0195045831 (alk. paper)

Author: Nash, Gary B.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication: 1991.

Physical Description: xvi, 249 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-236) and index.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Summary: During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, only Pennsylvania had extricated itself from slavery, the triumph, historians have argued, of Quaker moralism and the philosophy of natural rights. With exhaustive research of individual acts of freedom, slave escapes, legislative action, and anti-slavery appeals, Nash and Soderlund penetrate beneath such broad generalizations and find a more complicated process at work. Defiant runaway slaves joined Quaker abolitionists like Anthony Benezet and members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to end slavery and slave owners shrewdly calculated how to remove themselves from a morally bankrupt institution without suffering financial loss by freeing slaves as indentured servants, laborers, and cottagers.

Subjects: Slaves - Pennsylvania.; Slavery - Pennsylvania; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; Pennsylvania - History - 1775-1865.; Slavery - Abolition - History; Pennsylvania

Additional Author: Soderlund, Jean R.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 N249

Lest we forget : the passage from Africa to slavery and emancipation

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Author: Thomas, Velma Maia.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: c1997.

Call Number: 326 T462

Responsibility: Velma Maia Thomas.

ISBN: 0609600303 (alk. paper); 0609800108 (alk. paper)

Author: Thomas, Velma Maia.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Crown Trade Paperbacks,

Date of Publication: c1997.

Physical Description: 32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.

Notes: "A three-dimensional interactive book with photographs and documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-32).; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Slavery - United States; Africans - America; Slave-trade - America; Antislavery movements - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 T462

Meeting to prevent the introduction of slaves into any territory or state admitted into the Union

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1930

Tuesday, November 23rd, 1819, a largely-attended meeting of citizens was held in the court house in Lancaster for the purpose of consulting upon measures that might prevent the introduction of slavery into any territory or state hereafter to be formed, or admitted into the Union. The Hon. Walter Franklin

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1930

Physical Description: 63-64 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 34, no. 3

Subjects: Slavery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Slavery - United States

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society Volume 34, number 3 (1930), p. 63-64Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.34

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Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom

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Date of Publication: c1998.

Call Number: 326 R386

Responsibility: edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller.

ISBN: 1565844254 (set) :

Place of Publication: New York : Washington, D.C

Publisher: The New Press ; in association with The Library of Congress,

Date of Publication: c1998.

Physical Description: lii, 355 p. : ports. ; 24 cm. + 2 sound cassettes.

Notes: "Published by the New Press, in conjunction with the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution, to accompany the book Remembering slavery, edited by Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller" -- Cassettes.; "This book is published in conjunction with two sixty-minute audio tapes of live recordings and dramatic readings."--Jacket.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-348) and index.

Contents: Slavery as memory and history -- The faces of power: slaves and owners -- Work and slave life -- Family life in slavery -- Slave culture -- Slaves no more: Civil War and the coming of freedom -- Appendixes.

Subjects: Slavery - United States; African Americans; United States - History - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Berlin, Ira,; Favreau, Marc.; Miller, Steven F.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 R386

The search for Lydia

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Author: Allison, William A.

Date of Publication: 1995.

Call Number: 923.2 S846a

Responsibility: by William A. Allison.

Author: Allison, William A.

Place of Publication: Temple Hills, MD

Publisher: United Methodist Church of the Redeemer ,

Date of Publication: 1995.

Physical Description: 13 l. ; 28 cm.

Summary: The Lydia in question was Lydia Smith, housekeeper and friend of Congressman Thaddeus Stevens of Lancaster,PA. The author of this 12 page document appears to be a person who had become interested in the history of slavery in the United States. He took trips to visit sites related to the fight against slavery and became very interested in Mr Stevens. He presents a number of facts about Stevens, his career, and his funeral in Lancaster. The title of the article comes from the difficulty he had in locating Ms. Smith's grave. With the help of a genealogist, he located the grave. Though the author seems to be a layman and not a professional historian, he does present through his research facts about the Congressman that are not common knowledge.

Subjects: Stevens, Thaddeus,; Smith, Lydia, - 1813-1884.; Slavery - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.2 S846a

Underground railroad

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Date of Publication: [1997]

Call Number: 973.7115 U55

Responsibility: produced by the Division of Publications, National Park Service.

ISBN: 0912627646; 9780912627649

Place of Publication: Washington, D.C

Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior,

Date of Publication: [1997]

Physical Description: 87 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 21 cm.

Series: Handbook ; 156

Notes: Includes essays by Larry Gara, Brenda E. Stevenson, and C. Peter Ripley.; Includes index.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-85).

Subjects: Underground Railroad; Fugitive slaves - United States; Slavery - United States; Historic sites - United States.

Additional Corporate Author: United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 U55

Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation

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Date of Publication: c1993.

Call Number: 326 W825

Responsibility: C. Peter Ripley, editor ; co-editors, Roy E. Finkenbine, Michael F. Hembree, Donald Yacovone.

ISBN: 0807820725 (cloth : alk. paper); 0807844047 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,

Date of Publication: c1993.

Physical Description: xxiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Notes: Chapter 37 is titled: William Whipper's letters.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index.

Contents: The rise of black abolitionism : the colonization controversy; the growth of black abolitionism; the rise of immediatism; moral reform; prejudice; two abolitionisms -- African Americans and the antislavery movement : blacks as advocates; slave narratives; black women abolitionists; antislavery and the black community; problems in the movement -- Black independence : a new direction; the African American press; in the common defense; antislavery politics; black antislavery tactics; by all just and necessary means -- Black abolitionists and the national crisis : the slave power; the fugitive slave law; black emigration; black nationality; blacks and John Brown -- Civil war : debating the war; the emancipation proclamation; blacks and Lincoln; the black military experience; the movement goes south; reconstruction.

Subjects: Antislavery movements - United States; Abolitionists - United States; African Americans; African American abolitionists; Slavery - Abolition; United States

Additional Author: Ripley, C. Peter,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 W825

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Freedom by degrees : emancipation in Pennsylvania and its aftermath

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4822

Lest we forget : the passage from Africa to slavery and emancipation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2755

Meeting to prevent the introduction of slaves into any territory or state admitted into the Union

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2822

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Remembering slavery : African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8832

The search for Lydia

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12019

Underground railroad

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19142

Witness for freedom : African American voices on race, slavery, and emancipation

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9566