| Title | The Civil War in Pennsylvania : the African American experience / edited by Samuel W. Black.
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| Edition | First edition. |
| Published | 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]
©2013
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| Description | 239 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm
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| ISBN | 9780936340203 |
| ISBN | 0936340207 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | 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.
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| Subjects | African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
Pennsylvania -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
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| Other Authors | Black, Samuel W.
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| LC Card Number | 2013-29733 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: E 527 C582 2013
CA-1400697 c.1: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 148063] |
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