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

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Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1911
consideration for the facts as disclosed and from the point of view occupied at the home of the Gorsuches. The family of Dr. F. G. Mitchell, whose wife is a daughter of Dickinson Gorsuch, and who now owns the property thm of her grandfather, Edward Gorsuch,. from wru.ch the slaves fled, have been especially
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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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The Christiana riot and the treason trials of 1851 : an historical sketch

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Author
Hensel, W. U.
Edition
2nd and rev. ed.
Date of Publication
1911.
Call Number
974.80323
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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
Websites
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57021/57021-h/57021-h.htm
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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 Gap Gang

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Author
Smart, Gil.
Date of Publication
2008.
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by Gil Smart.
Author
Smart, Gil.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society ,
Date of Publication
2008.
Physical Description
p. 46 - 61 : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, 110, no. 2 (Summer 2008) .
Notes
Bibliography: p. 59 - 61.
Summary
The Gap gang was blamed for virtually every crime committed in this part of southeastern Pennsylvania - with good reason. From petty theft, armed robbery, arson, to counterfeiting, the loose-knit group terrorized the community, particularly its African - American members after 1850. This article focuses on the gang's pursuit of run-away slaves for profit.With the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, slave owners were emboldened in pursuing slaves who had escaped across the Mason-Dixon line into Pennsylvania. The law required civilians to assist in returning slaves to their owners, and it became profitable for the Gap Gang to sell former slaves in Pennsylvania back across the Mason Dixon line to slave owners. The gang developed a reputation for pursuing this line of business. This article also speaks of the formation of an African American Self Defense League in Lancaster County which meant to resist attempted captures of run-away slaves.
Subjects
Clemson family.
Bear, William.
Marsh, Perry.
United States.
Gap Gang.
Gangs - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 110, number 2 (2008), p. 59-61Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.110, no. 2
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The ground swallowed them up : slavery and the underground railroad in York County, Pa

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Author
Mingus, Scott L.
Date of Publication
2016.
©2016
Call Number
973.7115 M664
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Scott Mingus.
ISBN
9780979291555
0979291550
Author
Mingus, Scott L.
Place of Publication
York, Pa
Publisher
York County History Center,
Date of Publication
2016.
©2016
Physical Description
x, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Dr. Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. -- Foreword / June Burk Lloyd -- Slavery in Pennsylvania and the early abolitionist movement -- The early growth of the Underground Railroad -- Prigg v. Pennsylvania -- An open pathway for fugitives -- From discord toward dissolution -- The bloody road to emancipation -- Afterword / James McClure -- Appendix A : Reported Underground Railroad conductors in York County -- Appendix B : The slaveholder's prayer.
Subjects
Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Historic sites - Pennsylvania.
African Americans.
Fugitive slaves.
Historic sites.
Underground Railroad.
York County (Pa.) - History.
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania - York County.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 M664
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History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the neighboring counties of Pennsylvania

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Author
Smedley, R. C.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
2005.
Call Number
973.7115 S637 2005
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R.C. Smedley ; introduction by Christopher Densmore.
ISBN
0811731898
Author
Smedley, R. C.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, PA
Publisher
Stackpole Books,
Date of Publication
2005.
Physical Description
xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Notes
Originally published: Lancaster, Pa. : Office of the Journal, 1883.
Includes index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.
Summary
This book was written in 1883 by Robert Clemons Smedley, a Chester County Pennsylvania physician who interviewed participants in the underground railroad. He was not a historian and was not unbiased. But he is considered to have been conscientious in his efforts to record the stories he was told. He wrote about events as described to him by person who themselves were involved, both those fleeing slavery and those assisting them.Topics in chapters 1 & 2 include William Wright and Columbia, PA. Chapter 8 is about the "Christiana Tragedy".
Subjects
Underground railroad - Pennsylvania - Chester County.
Underground railroad - Pennsylvania.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Chester County
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Chester County
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Biography.
Abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Biography.
Chester County (Pa.) - Biography.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 S637 2005
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Making freedom : the Underground Railroad and the politics of slavery

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Author
Blackett, R. J. M.,
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
973.7115 B628
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R.J.M. Blackett.
ISBN
9781469608778
1469608774
Author
Blackett, R. J. M.,
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
xii, 122 pages ; 24 cm.
Series
The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-116) and index.
Contents
Making their way to freedom -- The workings of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law -- Taking leave: fugitive slaves and the politics of slavery -- Conclusion: Counternarratives.
Summary
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett uses the experiences of escaped slaves and those who aided them to explore the inner workings of the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, while shedding light on the political effects of slave escape in southern states, border states, and the North. Blackett highlights the lives of those who escaped, the impact of the fugitive slave cases, and the extent to which slaves planning to escape were aided by free blacks, fellow slaves, and outsiders who went south to entice them to escape. Using these stories of particular individuals, moments, and communities, Blackett shows how slave flight shaped national politics as the South witnessed slavery beginning to collapse and the North experienced a threat to its freedom. [from the publisher]
Subjects
United States.
Fugitive slaves - United States.
Underground Railroad.
Slavery - United States
Fugitive slaves.
Fugitive slaves
Politics and government
Slavery
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7115 B628
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The Negro in Pennsylvania; a study in economic history

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Author
Wright, Richard R.
Date of Publication
1969.
Call Number
326 W952
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[by] Richard R. Wright, Jr.
Author
Wright, Richard R.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Arno Press,
Date of Publication
1969.
Physical Description
250 p. 23 cm.
Series
The American Negro; his history and literature
Notes
A reprint of the 1912 ed.
Bibliography: p. 233-250.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Slaves - Pennsylvania
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 W952
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Notes and documents : Chattel with a soul : the autobiography of a Moravian slave

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Author
Thorp, Daniel B.
Date of Publication
1988.
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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
Websites
https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/44336/44057
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