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Address of General Henry Shippen Huidekoper at the commencement exercises of the Shippen School For Girls of Lancaster, Pa. : June 6, 1916

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Author
Huidekoper, H. S.
Date of Publication
[1916]
Call Number
370 H899
Author
Huidekoper, H. S.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New Era Print. Co.,
Date of Publication
[1916]
Physical Description
16 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Shippen School for Girls.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
370 H899
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Children stolen : maidens pressed

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Author
Nicholson, Mary Ann
Call Number
905.29 GSP v.35
Responsibility
by Mary Ann Nicholson.
Author
Nicholson, Mary Ann
Physical Description
187-190 p.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, v.35 (1988)
Summary
This article discusses the practice of sending children from Britain to America to be indentured servants. It cites court records in the late 17th century that document the indenture process required of the persons who purchased the children in America. " It was a common practice to ship young children to America where servants were in demand. Overseers of orphanages and workhouses and poor parents were thus relieved of the expense of a child's maintenance. Some children were simply kidnapped....Procuring or stealing children to sell as servants seems Dickensian to us now, but it was an acceptable and prevalent practice for many centuries."
Subjects
Women household employees - Pennsylvania.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
Orphans.
Indentured servants - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.29 GSP v.35
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The Christiana Riot and the treason trials of 1851 : an historical sketch

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Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1911
rapidly increasing development of communication and transmission. If, however, all the great statesmen, economists and churchmen who had struggled with the slavery question since the formation of the Union were unable to solve it, without the awful carnage of a tremendous and long lasting civil war, can
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Responsibility
by W. U. Hensel.
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1911
Physical Description
iii, 1-134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 8 [supplement]
Notes
Supplement to Lancaster County Historical Journal of October 1911
Subjects
United States.
Trials.
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Fugitive slaves - Legal status, laws, etc. - Pennsylvania.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 15, number 8 [supplement] (1911), p. 1-134Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.15
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John and Mary; or, The fugitive slaves. A tale of south-eastern Pennsylvania

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Author
Griest, Ellwood,
Date of Publication
1873.
Call Number
326 G848
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Responsibility
by Ellwood Griest.
Author
Griest, Ellwood,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company,
Date of Publication
1873.
Physical Description
226 p. 20 cm.
Notes
"Written originally for the Lancaster Inquirer."
African American resources in the Lancaster County Historical Society.
Maj. Ellwood Griest (1824-1900) was born to a Quaker family just across the Octoraro Creek from Lancaster County in West Nottingham, Chester County. He learned blacksmithing, moved to Christiana, and became very active in Republican politics and abolitionism. The Lancaster Intelligencer even accused him during the 1860 election campaign of "figuring somewhat prominently" in the Christiana Riot, although I haven't seen evidence. Griest also served with the Union army as a Sixth Corps commissary officer (a Quaker compromise?), and stayed in the army until 1866 witnessing early Reconstruction in Florida. After the war, he ran a newspaper in Lancaster and stayed active in politics. Lancaster's 1920s skyscraper, the Griest Building, is named after Ellwood Griest's son, Congressman William Walton Griest. [from http://www.lancasteratwar.com/2011/09/john-and-mary-tale-of-south-eastern.html]
Contents
Chapters: THE OCTORARO / THE BROWNS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS / THE FRIENDS / A VISITOR / THE FUGITIVES / PASSING EVENTS / A FOOT-RACE / THE DESERTED HOUSE / THE HUNTERS AND THEIR PREY / FOILED / DOCTOR KING / TIME'S CHANGES / KU-KLUX / LOST AND FOUND / MOTHER AND SON / HOME AT LAST
Summary
From the preface: "The following story, originally written for the LANCASTER INQUIRER, is founded on facts that came within the personal knowledge of the writer. The characters described are all real ones, as will be attested by many of the older inhabitants, yet living in the region of country where the events described occurred. Belonging to a generation of people and a condition of society that are rapidly passing away, they cannot fail to excite an interest in the minds of those who, living under totally different influences, learn of them only through others. The narrative of John and Mary, or rather of Mary and her child, is founded strictly on facts, and resulted from a state of society that has passed away forever. Whatever faithfully describes the influences and results of the institution of slavery, must become more and more interesting to the present generation, and in the hope that this little volume will in a measure meet this growing want, the writer has consented to its publication in the present form. That some pleasure and profit may result to the reader from its perusal is the earnest desire of THE AUTHOR."
Subjects
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania.
Ku Klux Klan.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
326 G848
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Negro communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania towns: the formative period, 1780-1860

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Author
Oblinger, Carl D.
Date of Publication
1971.
Call Number
301.451 O12n
Responsibility
by Carl D. Oblinger.
Author
Oblinger, Carl D.
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
1971.
Physical Description
25, [7] leaves ; 28 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Subjects
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
African Americans - Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
301.451 O12n
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The Negro in Pennsylvania; slavery-servitude-freedom, 1639-1861

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Author
Turner, Edward Raymond,
Date of Publication
1969.
Call Number
326 T945
Author
Turner, Edward Raymond,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Arno Press,
Date of Publication
1969.
Physical Description
xii, 314 p. 20 cm.
Series
The American Negro, his history and literature
Notes
Reprint of the 1911 ed.
Bibliography: p. 255-294.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 T945
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New freedoms, old miseries the emergence and disruption of black communities in southeastern Pennsylvania, 1780-1860

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Author
Oblinger, Carl D.
Date of Publication
1988
Call Number
301.451 O12
Responsibility
by Carl Douglas Oblinger
Author
Oblinger, Carl D.
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, MI
Publisher
UMI
Date of Publication
1988
Physical Description
261 p. ill., maps 22 cm.
Notes
Dissertation for Lehigh University
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
African Americans - Pennsylvania.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
301.451 O12
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The Philadelphia Negro; a social study

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Author
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Date of Publication
1899.
Call Number
326 D816
Responsibility
by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton.
Author
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Published for the University,
Date of Publication
1899.
Physical Description
xx, 520 p. illus. 26 cm.
Series
Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law, no. 14
Contents
Chapters: CHAPTER I. THE SCOPE OF THIS STUDY / CHAPTER II / THE PROBLEM / CHAPTER III. THE NEGRO IN PHILADELPHIA, 1638-1820 / CHAPTER IV. THE NEGRO IN PHILADELPHIA, 1820-1896 / CHAPTER V. THE SIZE, AGE AND SEX OF THE NEGRO POPULATION / CHAPTER VI. CONJUGAL CONDITION / CHAPTER VII. SOURCES OF THE NEGRO POPULATION / CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION AND ILLITERACY / CHAPTER IX. THE OCCUPATIONS OF NEGROES / CHAPTER X. THE HEALTH OF NEGROES / CHAPTER XI. THE NEGRO FAMILY / CHAPTER XII. THE ORGANIZED LIFE OF NEGROES.CHAPTER / XIII. THE NEGRO CRIMINAL.CHAPTER / XIV. PAUPERISM AND ALCOHOLISM.CHAPTER / XV. THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE NEGRO.CHAPTER / XVI. THE CONTACT OF THE RACESCHAPTER / XVII. NEGRO SUFFRAGE.CHAPTER / XVIII. A FINAL WORD.
Subjects
Afro-Americans - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia.
Domestics.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
African Americans
United States - Race relations.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Eaton, Isabel.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 D816
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A reminiscence of Langdon Cheves

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Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1911
was cut off, and it was impossible to say whether the events of the war might not have induced the President of the United States to convene the Congress before the month of Decem- ber. We all know that our Southern brethren are very jealous of their rights on the subject of slavery, and that their
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Responsibility
by W. U. Hensel.
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1911
Physical Description
120-122 ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 4
Subjects
Cheves, Langdon, - 1776-1857.
Legislators - United States
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 15, number 4 (1911), p. 120-122Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.15
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Slave owners in 1790, 1800, etc., in Pennsylvania

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Author
Lontz, Mary Belle
Date of Publication
2007.
Call Number
326 L862
Responsibility
by Mary Belle Lontz.
Author
Lontz, Mary Belle
Place of Publication
Computer printout
Date of Publication
2007.
Physical Description
Various paging ; 28 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Subjects
African Americans
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
Slave records - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 L862
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