African Americans in Pennsylvania : shifting historical perspectives / edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith.

Other author Trotter, Joe William, Jr., 1945-
Other author Smith, Eric Ledell, 1949-2008.
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press; Harrisburg, PA : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, ©1997.
Descriptionxv, 519 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
African Americans--Pennsylvania. --History.
Pennsylvania--Race relations.

Contents Introduction : Pennsylvania's African American history : a review of the literature / Joe W. Trotter Jr. -- Slaves and slave owners in colonial Philadelphia / Gary B. Nash -- Black women in colonial Pennsylvania / Jean R. Soderlund -- "Since they got those separate churches" : Afro-American and racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky -- Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia : a study of ex-slaves, freeborn, and socioeconomic decline / Theodore Hershberg -- "Freedom, or the martyr's grave" : Black Pittsburgh's aid to the fugitive slave / R.J.M. Blackett -- The Forten-Purvis women of Philadelphia and the American antislavery crusade / Janice Sumler-Lewis -- No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African American population and the Civil War era / Leroy T. Hopkins -- Nineteenth-century Philadelphia Black militant : Octavius V. Catto (1839-1871) / Harry C. Silcox -- "Two steps forward, a step-and-a-half back" : Harrisburg's African American community in the nineteenth century / Gerald G. Eggert -- The impact of the "new immigration" on the Black worker : Steelton, Pennsylvania, 1880-1920 / John E. Bodnar -- Migration and jobs : the new Black workers in Pittsburgh, 1916-1930 / Peter Gottlieb -- The Black migration to Philadelphia : a 1924 profile / Frederic Miller -- The Philadelphia Race Riot of 1918 / V.P. Franklin -- And the results showed promise...physicians, childbirth, and Southern Black migrant women, 1916-1930 : Pittsburgh as a case study / Carolyn Leonard Carson -- Black workers, defense industries, and federal agencies in Pennsylvania, 1941-1945 / Merl E. Reed -- The Black church in industrializing Western Pennsylvania, 1870-1950 / Dennis C. Dickerson -- Double burden : the Black experience in Pittsburgh / Laurence Glasco --Public housing, isolation, and the urban underclass : Philadelphia's Richard Allen Homes, 1941-1965 / John Bauman, Norman P. Hummon, and Edward K. Muller -- Race and neighborhood transition / Elijah Anderson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
LCCN 97005210
ISBN0271016868 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0271016876 (paperback : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks F160.B53 A37 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner Rare Collection F160.B53 A37 1997 ✔ Available Request Material