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African American kidnappings in Cumberland County: 1840-1860

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19878
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.
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v. 32, 2015.Lancaster History Library - Book974.843 CCH vol. 32
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Biography of an antislavery city : antislavery advocates, abolitionists, and underground railroad activists in Harrisburg, PA

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Author
Mealy, Todd.
Date of Publication
c2007.
Call Number
326 M482
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Todd Mealy.
ISBN
9781424197927 (pbk)
1424197929 (pbk)
Author
Mealy, Todd.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
PublishAmerica,
Date of Publication
c2007.
Physical Description
260 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-260)
Subjects
Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg.
Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg.
Abolitionists - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 M482
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Bloody dawn : the Christiana Riot and racial violence in the antebellum North

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Author
Slaughter, Thomas P.
Date of Publication
1991.
Call Number
974.80323 S631
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Thomas P. Slaughter.
ISBN
0195046331 :
Author
Slaughter, Thomas P.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1991.
Physical Description
xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-239) and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Chapters: THE ESCAPE // BLACK IMAGES IN WHITE MINDS // THE CHASE // THE RIOT // AFTERMATH // STRATAGEMS // THE TRIAL // RACE, VIOLENCE , AND LAW // RACE, RIOTS AND LAW // CONCLUSION
Summary
"This book tells the story of a riot that erupted on September 11, 1851 at Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and of the people whose lives were changed forever by that violent event. Shortly after dawn on that day, Lancaster's African-American community rose up in arms against attempted enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; and, in the course of saving four men from the federal posse charged to reenslave them, rioters killed the Maryland farmer who was trying to reclaim his human chattel." [from the introduction]
Subjects
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Violence - Pennsylvania - Christiana
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80323 S631
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But we have no country : the 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance

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Author
Forbes, Ella,
Date of Publication
1998.
Call Number
974.80323 F692e
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by Ella Forbes.
ISBN
0965330818 (cloth : acidfree paper)
Author
Forbes, Ella,
Place of Publication
Cherry Hill, N.J
Publisher
Africana Homestead Legacy,
Date of Publication
1998.
Physical Description
xiv, 338 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-330) and index.
Summary
"But We Have No Country" examines how William Parker and the Christiana Resisters tested the basic tenets of American democracy and law, especially the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. In doing so, they exposed the contradiction between the theory of the American creed and the reality of the enslavement and oppression of black Americans. Ultimately the Christiana Resistance was a contest of wills between Parker and his self-defense organization, with natural law on their side, and Edward Grosuch and other white slave owners, armed, literally with civil law. Their struggle encapsulized the more immense battle of how to incorporate the institution of slavery in a so-called free society which was waging nationwide. It was a clash that Parker and the valiant Resisters won. [from Amazon.com]
Subjects
United States. - Fugitive slave law (1850)
Slave insurrections - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80323 F692e
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The Christiana Riot, 1851

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Author
Douglass, Hugh.
Call Number
905.748 OAHS v. 3, no. 11
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Author
Douglass, Hugh.
Notes
In: Octorara Area Historical Society, v. 3, no.11, (not dated).
Subjects
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Christiana, Pa. - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 OAHS v. 3, no. 11
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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
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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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Christiana Riot - Information file

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Call Number
Information file - Christiana Riot
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Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
Subjects
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Information File
Call Number
Information file - Christiana Riot
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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 general position of Lancaster County in Negro slavery

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Author
Bausman, Lottie M.
Date of Publication
1911
%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Bausman, Lottie M. Title: The general position of Lancaster County in Negro slavery / by Miss Lottie M. Bausman. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Slavery--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Slaves--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Population
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by Miss Lottie M. Bausman.
Author
Bausman, Lottie M.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1911
Physical Description
[5]-21 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 1
Subjects
Slavery - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Slaves - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - Population.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 15, number 1 (1911), p. 5-21Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.15
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