The Civil War in Pennsylvania
Subtitle: the African American experience
By: edited by Samuel W. Black
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Published by the Senator John Heinz History Center for Pennsylvania Civil War 150, a collaboration with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780936340203
Subjects: History; African Americans; Race relations
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The early impact of race, politics, and freedom; title: The role of compromise in the development of American race relations / Eric Springer; title: At the risk of our own lives: violence and the Fugitive Slave Law in Pennsylvania / Kellie Carter Jackson; title: Vashon to Lincoln: the coming of a better time / Janet Davis and Winkfield Twyman; title: Part II. In search of freedom: migration, emigration, or just stay put; title: A land of promise: emigration and Pennsylvanian's Black elite in the era of the Haitian Revolution / Leslie M. Alexander; title: Black Pennsylvanians in Canada west / Nina Reid-Maroney; title: Allegheny County and the National Emigration Convention of 1854 / Samuel W. Black; title: Part III. The war to end slavery: on the road to freedom; title: A photographic history of Pennsylvania's African Americans in the Civil War / Michael G. Kraus, David M. Neville, and Kenneth C. Turner; title: Looking for a fight: Camp William Penn and the United States Colored Troops in Pennsylvania / Donald Scott.