| Description |
xv, 519 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- History.
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African Americans. |
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Pennsylvania. |
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History. |
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Pennsylvania -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Added Author |
Trotter, Joe William, 1945-
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Smith, Eric Ledell, 1949-2008.
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| ISBN |
0271016868 cloth alkaline paper |
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0271016876 paperback alkaline paper |
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