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The Christiana riot and the treason trials of 1851 : an historical sketch

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17928
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Edition
2nd and rev. ed.
Date of Publication
1911.
Call Number
974.80323
  1 website  
Responsibility
by W.U. Hensel ; With some account of the commemoration of these events, September 9, 1911.
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Edition
2nd and rev. ed.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Press of the New Era Print. Co.,
Date of Publication
1911.
Physical Description
ix, 158 p. : ill., facsim., ports. ; 29 cm.
Subjects
United States.
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Trials (Treason) - Pennsylvania.
Fugitive slaves - United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80323
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Hidden in plain view : the secret story of quilts and the underground railroad

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/1673032
Author
Tobin, Jacqueline,
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
1999.
  4 websites  
Responsibility
Jacqueline L. Tobin and Raymond G. Dobard.
ISBN
0385491379
Author
Tobin, Jacqueline,
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York, N.Y
Publisher
Doubleday,
Date of Publication
1999.
Physical Description
x, 208 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-208).
Subjects
Underground Railroad.
Fugitive slaves - United States
African American quilts
Ciphers
Additional Author
Dobard, Raymond G.
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John and Mary; or, The fugitive slaves. A tale of south-eastern Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3586
Author
Griest, Ellwood,
Date of Publication
1873.
Call Number
326 G848
  2 websites  
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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Mayor's Registry of Colored Persons: 1820-1849

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20731
Call Number
Drawer 3, sec. 2: #205
  1 website  
Alternate Title
Negro entry book.
Mayor's register of coloured persons.
Negro registry.
Physical Description
32 p.
Notes
Original manuscript is in the archives. Microfilm box labeld # 205.
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Slaves - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Slave records - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County
Location
Lancaster History Library - Microfilm
Call Number
Drawer 3, sec. 2: #205
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Notes and documents : Chattel with a soul : the autobiography of a Moravian slave

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11808
Author
Thorp, Daniel B.
Date of Publication
1988.
  1 website  
Alternate Title
Chatle with a soul.
Author
Thorp, Daniel B.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Date of Publication
1988.
Physical Description
433-451 p.
Summary
This journal article describes how an African male came to be sold into slavery in America and how he became a member of the Moravian church community in Bethlehem , Pa. Also included is the autobiography of this man named Andrew which as a member of the church he was required to write. While he remained in slave status, his membership in the church provided him a life more normal than a slave would ordinarily endure.
Subjects
African Americans
Moravian Church
Slaves
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, circa 1600-1775.
Contained In
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Volume 112, number 3 (July 1988), p. 433-451Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v.112
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Notes and documents : the precarious freedom of Blacks in the Mid-Atlantic region : excerpts from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728 - 1776

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14388
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v. 113 (April 1989)
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Billy G. Smith and Richard Wojtowicz.
Author
Smith, Billy Gordon.
Physical Description
p. 237 - 264.
Notes
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 113, April 1989.
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania
American newspapers - Pennsylvania
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600 - 1775.
Additional Author
Wojtowicz, Richard.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v. 113 (April 1989)
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Author
Kalman, Bobbie.
Date of Publication
©2003.
Call Number
973.049 K14
  1 website  
Responsibility
Bobbie Kalman & Amanda Bishop.
ISBN
0778707466
9780778707462
077870792X
9780778707929
0613529081
9780613529082
Author
Kalman, Bobbie.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Crabtree Pub.,
Date of Publication
©2003.
Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.
Series
Colonial people
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Quasheba's family -- Slavery in the colonies -- Slave families -- Marriage and children -- Helping one another -- The lives of slave children -- The education of slaves -- Field hands -- House servants -- Tradespeople -- Culture from Africa -- The cost of freedom.
Summary
Introduces the personal relationships and daily activities that were part of the family life of slaves in colonial America.
Subjects
Slaves - United States - Juvenile literature.
Plantation life - United States - Juvenile literature.
African American families - Juvenile literature.
African Americans - Juvenile literature.
African American families.
African Americans.
Plantation life.
Slaves
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Juvenile literature.
United States - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States.
United States - History - 1600-1775, Colonial period - Juvenile literature.
USHISTORY-SLAVES-JUVLIT.
History.
Juvenile works.
Additional Author
Bishop, Amanda.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.049 K14
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Slavery & the underground railroad in south central Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20449
Author
Wingert, Cooper H.,
Date of Publication
2016.
Call Number
973.7115 W769
  2 websites  
Alternate Title
Slavery and the underground railroad in south central Pennsylvania
Responsibility
Cooper H. Wingert.
ISBN
9781467119733
1467119733
Author
Wingert, Cooper H.,
Place of Publication
Charleston, SC
Publisher
The History Press,
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
158 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index.
Contents
Lives on the frontier -- The Quaker colony -- Slavery and the Rise of South Central Pennyslvania -- Revolutionary Times -- Defying abolition -- "The General pressure of the Times" -- "No Doubt She Is Somewhere in Adams County" -- Sons of the Revolution, Fathers of Abolition -- "Come in and Take Thy Breakfast" -- Confederate Invasion -- "God Plead My Cause"
Summary
"Much like the rest of the nation, South Central Pennsyvlania struggled with slavery. The institution lingered locally for more than fifty years, although it was virtually extinct everywhere else within Pennsylvania. Gradually, antislavery views prevailed. The Appalachian Mountains and the Susquehanna River provided natural cover for fleeing slaves, causing an influx of travel along the Underground Railraod. Locals like WIlliam Wright and James McAllister assisted these runaways while publically advocating to abolish slavery." -- page [4] of cover.
Subjects
Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania.
Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania
Fugitive slaves
Antislavery movements.
Underground Railroad.
Pennsylvania - History - 19th century.
Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 W769
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Vigilance in Pennsylvania : Underground railroad activities in the keystone state, 1837-1861

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19203
Author
Pinsker, Matthew.
Date of Publication
2000.
Call Number
973.7115 P658
  1 website  
Responsibility
by Matthew Pinsker.
Author
Pinsker, Matthew.
Place of Publication
[S. l
Publisher
s. n.]
Date of Publication
2000.
Physical Description
143 p. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Title from cover.
Draft context study presented at Black History Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 27, 2000.
Contents
Contents: Section One: Historical Context Section Two: Participants and Operations Section Three: Research and Preservation Appendix A: Nationally Recognized Sites Appendix B: State Recognized Sites Appendix C: Traditionally Associated Sites Appendix D: Selected Routes General Bibliography
Subjects
Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania.
Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania.
Abolitionists - Pennsylvania.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 P658
Websites
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