Hinsonville, a community at the crossroads
Subtitle: the story of a nineteenth-century African-American village
By: Marianne H. Russo, Paul A. Russo ; with a foreword by Robert D. Sayre.
Contributors: Russo, Paul Anthony, 1937-
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Selingsgrove, [Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Hinsonville -- History -- 19th century.; Landowners -- Pennsylvania -- Hinsonville -- History -- 19th century.; Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Hinsonville -- Biography.; Landowners -- Pennsylvania -- Hinsonville -- Biography.; African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Hinsonville -- History -- 19th century.; African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Hinsonville -- Biography.; Hinsonville (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.; Hinsonville (Pa.) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: A community on the doorstep of slavery; title: The geographic and political landscape; title: The earliest families; title: The family as an institution; title: The Hosanna church; title: Life at midcentury; title: The great debate over slavery; title: The long shadow of the Fugitive Slave Act; title: The founding of Ashmun Institute; title: The Civil War and its aftermath; title: The great church split; title: The vanished village.