Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Harrisburg, PA : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission ; University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Trotter, Joe William, 1945-
• Smith, Eric Ledell, 1949-

Description

xv, 519 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Subjects

• African Americans > Pennsylvania > History
• Pennsylvania > Race relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Pennsylavania'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-Ameriacn 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 matyr'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 cerntury / 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 Pensylvania, 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.

Call Number

Sc E 97-1057

ISBN

• 0271016868 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0271016876 (paperback : alk. paper)

LCCN

97005210

OCLC

36681642

Title

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

Imprint

Harrisburg, PA : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission ; University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1997.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Trotter, Joe William, 1945-

Smith, Eric Ledell, 1949-

Research Call Number

Sc E 97-1057