Of Color, Humanitas and Statehood : the black experience in Pennsylvania over three centuries, 1681-1981.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans.

History.

Race relations.

Pennsylvania--Race relations--History.

Pennsylvania.

African Americans--Pennsylvania--History--Exhibitions.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Society of Friends.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

143 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 x 29 cm

Other Title:

Black experience in Pennsylvania over Three Centuries 1681-1981

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : The Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, 1981.

Contents:

Foreword / H. Alonzo Jennings

Origins of the Exhibition / Charles L. Blockson

Introduction: Centuries of Struggle, Decades of Triumph / L. D. Reddick

Part I. Slaves Amidst the Peaceable Kingdom, 1681-1776

Part II. Blacks and the Newborn Nation, 1777-1800

Part III. Prophets of Equality, Patriots of the Union, 1801-1803

Part IV. The Search of Equality, 1866-1900

Part V. The Black Talented and Toiler During Pennsylvania's Industrial Age, 1901-1940

Part VI. Troubled Minority in the Modern Commonwealth, 1941-1981

Catalogue of the Exhibition.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition organized by The Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia.

Half t.p.: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: 3000 years of Black Hhistory.

"Cover: Map of the Underground Railroad. Oil on canvas by Charles Hollingsworth, 1981."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-128) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has pages 1-8 disbound.

OCLC:

8366455