The Civil War in Pennsylvania : the African American experience edited by Samuel W. Black

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black, Samuel W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

Pennsylvania.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

United States.

African Americans--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.

African Americans.

Pennsylvania--Race relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

239 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : Published by the Senator John Heinz History Center for Pennsylvania Civil War 150, a collaboration with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, [2013]

Contents:

Part I. The early impact of race, politics, and freedom

The role of compromise in the development of American race relations / Eric Springer

At the risk of our own lives: violence and the Fugitive Slave Law in Pennsylvania / Kellie Carter Jackson

Vashon to Lincoln: the coming of a better time / Janet Davis and Winkfield Twyman

Part II. In search of freedom: migration, emigration, or just stay put

A land of promise: emigration and Pennsylvanian's Black elite in the era of the Haitian Revolution / Leslie M. Alexander

Black Pennsylvanians in Canada west / Nina Reid-Maroney

Allegheny County and the National Emigration Convention of 1854 / Samuel W. Black

Part III. The war to end slavery: on the road to freedom

A photographic history of Pennsylvania's African Americans in the Civil War / Michael G. Kraus, David M. Neville, and Kenneth C. Turner

Looking for a fight: Camp William Penn and the United States Colored Troops in Pennsylvania / Donald Scott.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780936340203

0936340207

OCLC:

854956958