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Black women in colonial Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14080
Author
Soderlund, Jean R.,
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.107
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Responsibility
by Jean R. Soderlund.
Author
Soderlund, Jean R.,
Physical Description
p. 49 - 68.
Notes
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Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 107 (1983).
Subjects
African American women - Pennsylvania
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.107
Websites
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Freedom by degrees : emancipation in Pennsylvania and its aftermath

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4822
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
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Quakers & slavery : a divided spirit

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3162
Author
Soderlund, Jean R.,
Date of Publication
1985.
Call Number
289.6 S679
Alternate Title
Quakers and slavery
Responsibility
Jean R. Soderlund.
ISBN
0691047324 (alk. paper) :
Author
Soderlund, Jean R.,
Place of Publication
Princeton, N.J
Publisher
Princeton University Press,
Date of Publication
1985.
Physical Description
xiii, 220 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographies and index.
African American resources in the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Summary
"The book explores the growth of abolitionism among Quakers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from 1688 to 1780, providing a case study of how groups change their moral attitudes. Dr. Soderlund details the long battle fought by reformers like gentle John Woolman and eccentric Benjamin Lay. The eighteenth-century Quaker humanitarians succeeded only after they diluted their goals to attract wider support, establishing a gradualistic, paternalistic, and segregationist model for the later antislavery movement." [from Goodreads.com]
Subjects
Antislavery movements - United States.
Slavery and the church
Quakers - United States
Abolitionists - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
289.6 S679
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