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Pennsylvania Hall : a "legal lynching" in the shadow of the Liberty Bell / Beverly C. Tomek, University of Houston-Victoria.
Van Pelt Library F158.44 .T66 2014
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tomek, Beverly C.
- Series:
- Critical historical encounters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Fire, 1838.
- Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Abolitionists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
- Abolitionists.
- History.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--19th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 206 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- Pennsylvania's antislavery background
- Free produce and the origins of modern abolition
- A biracial movement for immediate emancipation
- Radicalism in the gradualist city
- A "temple of liberty" or a "temple of amalgamation"
- An amalgamation wedding
- This "tabernacle of mischief and fanaticism"
- Free speech "consumed in a blue blaze"
- Aftershocks
- A "legal lynching" and the martyrdom of Pennsylvania Hall.
- ISBN:
- 0199837600
- 9780199837601
- OCLC:
- 857356551
- Publisher Number:
- 99959309118
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