An American Testament: addenda, errata, and et cetera / Hugh S. Fullerton, V -- Stewart/Fullerton involvement in the Underground Railroad / Hugh S. Fullerton, V -- Rev. Hugh Fullerton, desdendant of Covenanters / Hugh S. Fullerton, V -- The siblings, sons and descendants of Rev. Hugh S. Fullerton / Hugh S. Fullerton, V -- The confusing Wlilliams of the Humphrey Fullerton line / Hugh S. Fullerton, V.
Collection of brochures relating to tourist attractions, museums, historic sites, events, stores, farmers' markets, hotels, and restaurants in Lancaster, Lebanon, and York Counties. Visitors' guides and road maps provide additional information about points of interest. Items in the collection date back to the late 1920s and continue to the present, but most are from the mid-twentieth century.
Chapters: "A Friend" - an essay on the life of Daniel Gibbons by his daughter-in-law, Phoebe Earle Gibbons --- Anecdotes by an unknown friend --- Joseph Gibbons (1818 to 1883 ) obituary from the Lancaster New Era --- Tribute to Levi Johnson by Marianna Gibbons as printed in Lancaster New Era --- Excerpts pertaining to Levi Johnson from the diaries of Phoebe Gibbons and Marianna Gibbons --- "The Underground Railroad " a paper written by Marianna Gibbons Brubaker --- Newspaper articles : "County Duck Farm Unique in Pennsylvania " ; " Underground Railroad stop Holds Pre-Civil War Proof " ; " The Gibbons House . "
Chapters: The Early Years / Hotels / Transportation / Mills / Early Families / Churches / Education / Historical Businesses, Buildings / Current Businesses / Community Organizations / Past and Present Residents / Community Life / Pictorial.
xv, 540 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [440]-519) and index.
Contents
Beginnings: 1800 to 1830 -- Connections: The 1830s -- Confrontation: The 1840s -- Victory: The 1850s.
Summary
Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion, which brought together Easterners who had engaged in slavery primarily in the abstract alongside slaveholding Southerners and their slaves, arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce fight for nothing less than the country's soul. Beginning six decades before the Civil War, freedom-seeking blacks and pious whites worked together to save tens of thousands of lives, often at the risk of great physical danger to themselves. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only subverted federal law but also went against prevailing mores.Flawlessly researched and uncommonly engaging, Bound for Canaan, shows why it was the Underground Railroad and not the Civil Rights movement that gave birth to this country's first racially-integrated, religiously-inspired movement for social change. [from the publisher]
''Child Heroes of the Underground Railroad illuminates the vital contributions of specific, underappreciated child activists within the extremely local circumstances of their daily work. It also provides meaningful context to the actions of these young activists within the much broader social practice of resisting slavery, and offers fresh insight into the complicated question of who was responsible for ending slavery. Through a thorough examination of these subjects, author Jonathan Shectman proves his central thesis: in many specific cases, children were the essential lifeblood of the Underground Railroad's operational workforce." ( amazon.com )
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208) and index.
Contents
The dictates of humanity -- Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave -- Ran away from the subscriber -- Tell them I love them all -- Let not the sun go down on your anger, my boy -- Up like bucks: the Rankin boys -- States of matter divide the states -- Deeds of bold daring -- Many years under the yoke -- The conductor was, himself, presently enslaved.
Part I. Radical, young, and quaker: child pioneers of the underground -- Part II. Up like bucks: the line through Ripley -- Part III. Taking their freedom: young free blacks and fugitive children.
