African Americans In Pennsylvania

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This collection serves as the single most comprehensive treatment of Pennsylvania's black history yet to appear in print. —ChoiceContributors are Elijah Anderson, John F. Bauman, R. J. M. Blackett, John E. Bodnar, Carolyn Leonard Carson, Dennis C. Dickerson, Gerald G. Eggert, V. P. Franklin, Laurence Glasco, Peter Gottlieb, Theodore Hershberg, Leroy T. Hopkins, Norman P. Hummon, Emma Jones Lapsansky, Janice Sumler Lewis, Frederic Miller, Edward K. Muller, Gary B. Nash, Merl E. Reed, Harry C. Silcox, Jean R. Soderlund, and Joe W. Trotter, Jr.From the onset of the modern civil rights and black power movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s through recent times, scholarship on Pennsylvania's African American experience proliferated. Unfortunately, much of it is scattered in books and journals that are not easily accessible. Under the editorship of Joe W. Trotter and Eric Ledell Smith, African Americans in Pennsylvania brings together an outstanding array of this scholarship and makes it accessible to a wider audience, including general as well as professional students of the black experience.This volume, co-published with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, offers the most comprehensive history of the state's black history to date. Chapters emphasize the interplay of class and race from the origins of the Commonwealth during the seventeenth century, through the era of deindustrialization in the late twentieth century. We see not only poor and working-class people but also educated business and professional people. And although scholarship has traditionally focused on the experiences of black men, this volume includes significant research on black women. Most important, this volume suggests a conceptual framework for a historical synthesis of the state's African American experience. In his introduction, Trotter assesses the strengths and limitations of existing scholarship, showing how it is built on the contributions of nineteenth-century pioneers as well as those of the first generation of professional historians, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Richard R. Wright, and Edward Raymond Turner. Chapters are grouped into four interlocking parts that correspond to important changes in Pennsylvania's political economy. Each part includes a brief substantive introduction that ties together the themes of the ensuing chapters. This format enables readers to develop their own synthesis of key socioeconomic and political changes in the state's African American experience over more than three centuries of time.African Americans in Pennsylvania shows how ordinary people have influenced the culture, institutions, and politics of African American communities in Pennsylvania. In the process, it documents the ways that black people have influenced, and continue to influence, the state as a whole.

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An anthology of 19 articles about the African-American experience in Pennsylvania, drawing on scholarly essays from local, regional, and national journals. The essays are divided into four sections on the commercial economy (1684<-->1840), the industrializing era (1840<-- >1870), the industrial era (1870<-->1945), and the transformation of the Black community (1945<-->1985). In his introduction, Trotter (history, Carnegie Mellon U.) examines the transformation of the state's black historiography from its early beginnings to the present. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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ISBN-13: 9780271016870
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Pages: 536
Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.19 (d)

	Foreword
	Editors' Preface
	Introduction: Pennsylvania's African American History: A Review of the Literature	1
Pt. I	The Commercial Economy: The Transformation of Africans into African Americans, 1684-1840	41
1	Slaves and Slave Owners in Colonial Philadelphia	43
2	Black Women in Colonial Pennsylvania	73
3	"Since The Got Those Separate Churches": Afro-Americans and Racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia	93
Pt. II	The Industrializing Era: The Meaning of Freedom in a Democratic State, 1840-1870	121
4	Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia: A Study of Ex-Slaves, Freeborn, and Socioeconomic Decline	123
5	"Freedom, or the Martyr's Grave": Black Pittsburgh's Aid to the Fugitive Slave	148
6	The Forten-Purvis Women of Philadelphia and the American Antislavery Crusade	166
7	No Balm in Gilead: Lancaster's African American Population and the Civil War Era	177
8	Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Black Militant: Octavius V. Catto (1839-1871)	198
9	"Two Steps Forward, a Step-and-a-Half Back": Harrisburg's African American Community in the Nineteenth Century	220
Pt. III	The Industrial Era: New Patterns of Class, Race, and Ethnicity, 1870-1945	255
10	The Impact of the "New Immigration" on the Black Worker: Steelton, Pennsylvania, 1880-1920	257
11	Migration and Jobs: The New Black Workers in Pittsburgh, 1916-1930	272
12	The Black Migration to Philadelphia: A 1924 Profile	287
13	The Philadelphia Race Riot of 1918	316
14	And the Results Showed Promise ... Physicians, Childbirth, and Southern Black Migrant Women, 1916-1930: Pittsburgh as a Case Study	330
15	Black Workers, Defense Industries, and Federal Agencies in Pennsylvania, 1941-1945	363
16	The Black Church in Industrializing Western Pennsylvania, 1870-1950	388
Pt. IV	The Transformation of the Black Community: Toward the Postindustrial Era, 1945-1985	403
17	Double Burden: The Black Experience in Pittsburgh	405
18	Public Housing, Isolation, and the Urban Underclass: Philadelphia's Richard Allen Homes, 1941-1965	443
19	Race and Neighborhood Transition	469
	List of Contributors	499
	Index	501

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