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Abolition divides the meeting house : Quakers and slavery in early Lancaster County

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Author
Ebersole, Mark C.
Date of Publication
2000.
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by Mark C. Ebersole.
Author
Ebersole, Mark C.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society /
Date of Publication
2000.
Physical Description
2-27 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.102, no. 1.
Subjects
Slavery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Quaker abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Quakers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 102, number 1 (2000), p. 2-27Lancaster History Library - Journal974.815 L224 v.102.
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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
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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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Address of Isaac E. Hiester of Penn. to his constituents, citizens of the Ninth Congressional District on the Nebraska-Kansas act

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Author
Hiester, Isaac Ellmaker,
Date of Publication
1854]
Call Number
973.891 H633
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Author
Hiester, Isaac Ellmaker,
Place of Publication
[Washington
Date of Publication
1854]
Physical Description
16 p.
Subjects
Slavery - Kansas.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.891 H633
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African American kidnappings in Cumberland County: 1840-1860

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Author
Taylor, Janet.
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by Janet Taylor.
Author
Taylor, Janet.
Physical Description
36-46 p.
Subjects
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Cumberland County
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Slavery - United States.
Free African Americans - Pennsylvania.
Contained In
v. 32, 2015.Lancaster History Library - Book974.843 CCH vol. 32
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Africans on the Delaware : the Pennsylvania slave trade, 1759-1765

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Author
Wax, Darold D.
Call Number
905.748 PHA v.50
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Author
Wax, Darold D.
Physical Description
38-49 p.
Notes
In: Pennsylvania History, v.50 (January 1983)
Subjects
Slavery in Pennsylvania.
African Americans - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 PHA v.50
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Afro-American gravemarkers in North Carolina

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Author
Little, M. Ruth
Call Number
736.5 M354
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Author
Little, M. Ruth
Physical Description
103-134 p.
Notes
In: Markers VI : the Journal for the Association of Gravestone Studies (1989)
Subjects
Tombstones.
Folk art, African-American.
Black history.
Slavery.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
736.5 M354
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Aftermath supplementary to Christiana Riot, 1851

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Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1912
of Mary- land, for divers good causes and con- siderations, me thereunto moving, have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted, and set free from and after the twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five my male slave named Giles Wallis, aged four
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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
1912
Physical Description
133-141 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 5
Subjects
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Slavery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 16, number 5 (1912), p. 133-141Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.16
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Agreement

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Collection
Black History Collection
Title
Terms of manumission of Fanny
Object ID
MG0240_Ser02_F009_It02
Date Range
1809, 1813
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Collection
Black History Collection
Title
Terms of manumission of Fanny
Description
Terms of manumission of Fanny, presented to the Justices of the Peace of Maryland by Jeremiah Heaton. Received and recorded in Harford County, 22 July 1809. Certified 4 November 1813.
Date Range
1809, 1813
Creation Date
1809 and 1813
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
Storage Wall
Side 06
People
Fanny
Heaton, Jeremiah
Subjects
African Americans--History
Liberty
Slaveholders
Slavery
Enslaved persons--Emancipation
Search Terms
Emancipation
Enslaved persons
Harford County, Maryland
Persons of color
Slaveholders
Slavery
Extent
1 item, 2 pages to scan
Object Name
Agreement
Language
English
Object ID
MG0240_Ser02_F009_It02
Location of Originals
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Related Item Notes
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Notes
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Other Numbers
MG-240, Series 2
Other Number
MG-240, Series 2, Folder 9, Item 2
Classification
MG0240
Description Level
Item
Custodial History
Transferred from Document Collection, Case 1 and cataloged June 2007. Added to database on 26 January 2022.
The items in Folder 9 are all attached at the corner with sealing wax.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.
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American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery and improving the condition of the African race at Philadelphia, in October, 1819, to the people of the United States

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Date of Publication
1819.
Call Number
326 P544 1819
326 A512
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Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by S.W. Conrad,
Date of Publication
1819.
Physical Description
43 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Meeting convened in Philadelphia, October 15, 1819.
Report from the Columbia, Pa. Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, p. 11-14.
Subjects
Slavery - United States
Abolitionists - United States
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 P544 1819
326 A512
Websites
https://lancasterh.bywatersolutions.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=55e049bdc9735c5b538619a265e883ca
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The American Revolution and the testimony of British Quakers against slave trade

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11886
Author
Jennings, Judith
Call Number
905.748 QH v.70, no.2
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Author
Jennings, Judith
Physical Description
99-103 p.
Notes
In: Quaker History, v.70, no.2 (Fall 1981)
Subjects
Quakers.
Slave trade.
United States
Slavery and the church.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 QH v.70, no.2
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