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Black women in colonial Pennsylvania

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Author
Soderlund, Jean R.,
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.107
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by Jean R. Soderlund.
Author
Soderlund, Jean R.,
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p. 49 - 68.
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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
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https://journals.psu.edu/index.php/pmhb/article/download/43881/43602
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Equal but separate : the life and career of an African American businessman in Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1796?-1841 /by Teresa A. Weisser

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Author
Weisser, Teresa A.
Date of Publication
2003.
Call Number
926.74 S661
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The life and career of an African American businessman in Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1796?-1841.
Author
Weisser, Teresa A.
Date of Publication
2003.
Physical Description
v, 133 leaves.
Summary
"Born in Middle Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania at the end of the 18th century to a slave mother and an unknown father, Stephen Smith overcame the handicaps posed by racism and poverty to become one of the wealthiest African Americans in the United States. As his prosperity and prominence increased, Smith also became a recognized and respected leader of the African American community, first in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and later on the state and national level...I have sought to understand the forces that shaped him, the circumstances that allowed him to succeed in business when so many others were unable to do so, and the contributions he made to the African American community." [from the author]
Subjects
Smith, Stephen, - 1796-1841.
Columbia, Pa. - History.
African Americans - Pennsylvania.
African American business people - Pennsylvania.
Lumber trade.
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Columbia (Pa.) - Race relations - 19th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
926.74 S661
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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
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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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The Friends fight for freedom

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Author
Kashatus, William C.
Call Number
905.748 PHMC v.14
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Author
Kashatus, William C.
Physical Description
4-9 p.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Heritage, v.14 (Summer 1988).
Subjects
Lay, Benjamin.
Mott, Lucretia, - 1793-1880.
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Society of Friends
Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Race relations - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 PHMC v.14
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The Germantown Protest: origins of abolitionism among the German residents of southeastern Pennsylvania

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Author
Hopkins, Leroy
Call Number
Available at F&M
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by Leroy T. Hopkins.
Author
Hopkins, Leroy
Physical Description
19-29 p.
Notes
In: Yearbook of the Society for German American Studies, v.23 (1988) available ata F&M College.
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania.
Germans - Pennsylvania
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Abolitionists - Pennsylvania.
Germantown (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
Available at F&M
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The kidnapping of Rachel and Elizabeth Parker

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Author
Coates, Howard N.
Date of Publication
1928
and the theme before the store box congress was usually some phase of the slavery question. Chauncey M. Depew in his "Memories of Eighty Years" says these were the schools in which were developed the thought and the conviction which made possible the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. In the Fremont
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by Howard N. Coates.
Author
Coates, Howard N.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1928
Physical Description
31-39 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 32, no. 3 & 4
Subjects
Parker, Elizabeth.
Wesley, Rachel Parker.
Slavery - Maryland
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 32, number 3/4 (1928), p. 31-39Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.32
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The light of Parnell

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Author
Appel, John W.
Date of Publication
1916.
Call Number
813.5 A646
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by John W. Appel.
Author
Appel, John W.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
The Heidelberg Press,
Date of Publication
1916.
Physical Description
395, [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Frontispiece.
This story is a border tale of southern Pennyslvania, dealing with certain phases of the Civil War and the events immediately preceding it. The historic details are based on fact.
Subjects
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fiction.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.5 A646
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433082170667&view=1up&seq=11
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The Negro in Pennsylvania history

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Author
Brown, Ira V.
Date of Publication
1970.
Call Number
326 B878
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by Ira V. Brown.
Author
Brown, Ira V.
Place of Publication
University Park
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical Association,
Date of Publication
1970.
Physical Description
iii, 68 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania history studies ;
Notes
Bibliography: p. 62-68.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Contents : Colonial Pennsylvania --- Anti-slavery Pioneers --- The Abolition Act of 1780 --- Work of the Abolition Society --- The Free Negroes Organize --- The American Colonization Society ---Garrisonian Abolitionism --- The American Anti-Slavery Society --- Negro Disfranchisement --- The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society--- The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall --- Conflict Within Abolitionism --- The Underground Railroad --- Growth of the Negro Community --- Civil War and Reconstruction --- The Struggle For Equal Rights --- Suffrage Restored --- The School Question --- Cultural Progress
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 B878
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The Pennsylvania Abolition Society & the Pennsylvania Black : two hundredth anniversary exhibition, April 17, 1974-July 17, 1974, at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania : from its collections, those of Charles L. Blockson, and others

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Date of Publication
1974.
Call Number
326 P415
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Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Pennsylvania Abolition Society,
Date of Publication
1974.
Physical Description
24 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Antislavery movements - United States
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Exhibitions.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 P415
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The Pennsylvania delegation and the peculiar institution: the two faces of the Keystone State

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Author
Finkelman, Paul
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.112
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by Paul Finkelman.
Author
Finkelman, Paul
Physical Description
49-71 p.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.112 (January 1988).
Subjects
Wilson, James - 1742-1798.
Morris, Gouverneur, - 1752-1816.
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Slave trade - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - 1783-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.112
Websites
https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/44286/44007
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