The elite of our people
Subtitle: Joseph Willson's sketches of Black upper-class life in antebellum Philadelphia
By: edited by Julie Winch.
Contributors: Winch, Julie, 1953-
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: University Park
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.; Upper class -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.
Originally published: Sketches of the higher classes of colored society in Philadelphia. Philadelphia : Merrihew and Thompson, printers, 1841. With new introduction and extensive annotations.