| Richard Newman, James Mueller - Social Science - 2011 - 274 pages
Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia considers the cultural, political, and religious contexts shaping the long struggle against racial injustice in one of early America's ... | |
| Gary B. Nash - African Americans - 1988 - 372 pages
This book is the first to trace the fortunes of the earliest large free black community in the U.S. Nash shows how black Philadelphians struggled to shape a family life, gain ... | |
| Kathleen D. McCarthy - Business & Economics - 2003 - 350 pages
Drawing on extensive research of archives, historical journals and newspapers, letters, and academic studies, McCarthy (history, the Graduate Center of the State U. of New York ... | |
| Leslie M. Harris - History - 2003 - 393 pages
In 1991 in lower Manhattan construction workers discovered the remains of an 18th century 'Negro Burial Ground'. Closed in 1790 and covered over by later roads and buildings ... | |
| Beverly C. Tomek - Social Science - 2011 - 296 pages
Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early AmericaOCOs abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to ... | |
| Lori D. Ginzberg - Social Science - 1990 - 248 pages
Nineteenth-century middle-class Protestant women were fervent in their efforts to "do good." Rhetoric--especially in the antebellum years--proclaimed that virtue was more ... | |
| Anne M. Boylan - Social Science - 2003 - 360 pages
Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She ... | |
| Carol Faulkner - History - 2011 - 309 pages
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and ... | |
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