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Author : Fair Hill Burial Ground
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Download or read book Fair Hill Burial Ground Records written by Fair Hill Burial Ground and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 744 pages
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Download or read book The Indulged Meeting at Fair Hill written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Winch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195347456
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (474 download)
Download or read book A Gentleman of Color written by Julie Winch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By 1810 he had earned the distinction of being the leading sailmaker in Philadelphia. Soon after Forten emerged as a leader in Philadelphia's black community and was active in a wide range of reform activities. Especially prominent in national and international antislavery movements, he served as vice-president of the American Anti-Slavery Society and became close friends with William Lloyd Garrison to whom he lent money to start up the Liberator. His family were all active abolitionists and a granddaughter, Charlotte Forten, published a famous diary of her experiences teaching ex-slaves in South Carolina's Sea Islands during the Civil War. This is the first serious biography of Forten, who stands beside Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the pantheon of African Americans who fundamentally shaped American history.
Author : Margaret Hope Bacon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480429
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book But One Race written by Margaret Hope Bacon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in South Carolina to a wealthy white father and mixed race mother, Robert Purvis (1810–1898) was one of the nineteenth century's leading black abolitionists and orators. In this first biography of Purvis, Margaret Hope Bacon uses his eloquent and often fierce speeches to provide a glimpse into the life of a passionate and distinguished man, intimately involved with a wide range of major reform movements, including abolition, civil rights, Underground Railroad activism, women's rights, Irish Home Rule, Native American rights, and prison reform. Citing his role in developing the Philadelphia Vigilant Committee, an all black organization that helped escaped slaves secure passage to the North, the New York Times described Purvis at the time of his death as the president of the Underground Railroad. Voicing his opposition to a decision by the state of Pennsylvania to disenfranchise black voters in 1838, Purvis declared "there is but one race, the human race." But One Race is the dramatic story of one of the most important figures of his time.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043029
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Elite of Our People: Joseph Willson's Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia, first published in 1841, was written by Joseph Willson, a southern black man who had moved to Philadelphia. He wrote this book to convince whites that the African-American community in his adopted city did indeed have a class structure, and he offers advice to his black readers about how they should use their privileged status. The significance of Willson's account lies in its sophisticated analysis of the issues of class and race in Philadelphia. It is all the more important in that it predates W. E. B. Du Bois's The Philadelphia Negro by more than half a century. Julie Winch has written a substantial introduction and prepared extensive annotation. She identifies the people Willson wrote about and gives readers a sense of Philadelphia's multifaceted and richly textured African American community. The Elite of Our People will interest urban, antebellum, and African-American historians, as well as individuals with a general interest in African-American history. This volume has withstood the test of time. It remains readable. Joseph Willson was well read, articulate, and had a keen eye for detail. His message is as timely today as it was in 1841. The people he wrote about were remarkable individuals whose lives were as complex as his own.
Author : Pennsylvania Historical Survey
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Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Inventory of Church Archives written by Pennsylvania Historical Survey and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chandler Family Reunion Committee
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Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Record of the Descendants of George and Jane Chandler written by Chandler Family Reunion Committee and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas H. Keels
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738512297
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries written by Thomas H. Keels and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia, the birthplace of America, is the final resting place of some of the nation's greatest citizens. The burial grounds of Christ Church hold the remains of Benjamin Franklin and six other signers of the Declaration of Independence. Philadelphia pioneered the development of the rural cemetery with the establishment of Laurel Hill, eternal home to Gettysburg hero George Gordon Meade and thirty-nine other Civil War-era generals. In Philadelphia's Jewish, Catholic, and African American burial grounds rest such notable figures as Rebecca Gratz, model for the Jewish heroine of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe; John Barry, Catholic father of the U.S. Navy; and Octavius Catto, an African American civil-rights leader of the nineteenth century. Finally, there are the vanished cemeteries, such as Monument, Lafayette, and Franklin. Transformed into playgrounds and parking lots, these cemeteries were obliterated with sometimes horrific callousness. Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries tells the intriguing history of these burial grounds, whether revered or long forgotten.
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Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Record Almanac for the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027104571X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Back to Africa written by Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilyn Yalom
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547345437
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The American Resting Place written by Marilyn Yalom and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern of American migration, their destinations highlight America’s cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalom’s incisive reading of gravestone inscriptions reveals changing ideas about death and personal identity, as well as how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime, the unique burial rites and funerary symbols found in today’s Native American cultures, and a “lost” Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicago’s Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling future—DVDs embedded in tombstones, “green” burials, and “the new aesthetic of death”—The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.
Author : Ezra MICHENER
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Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A Retrospect of Early Quakerism: Being Extracts from the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Etc written by Ezra MICHENER and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Lopez
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140239456
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Third and Indiana written by Steve Lopez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Philadelphia neighborhood known as the Badlands, drug gangs rule absolutely. Each time a life is lost in the carnage of the local drug wars, a boldly drawn chalk outline of a body appears on the street leading up to City hall: a teenaged dealer, a priest, a little girl with a jump rope. Ofelia Santoro rides her bicycle through the dark, decaying streets, looking for her fourteen-year-old-son, Gabriel. She’s afraid of what she might find. Gabriel has fallen in with the most savage of the drug dealers, but now wants to get out—if he can. In this gritty, fast-moving novel, acclaimed Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Steve Lopez brings home the violence that is scarring America’s vast urban wastelands, and the humanity that might save them. “An unfancy prose is streaked by strong, cinematic images . . . Lopez aims to prick consciences, in the tradition of the documentary novelist, and he does so with considerable style.”—The Daily Telegraph “Lopez has done what Balzac, Dickens . . . and Dostoevsky did so masterfully: he has taken a torch to the back of the cave and returned to tell us what he has seen.” –Pete Hamill, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Author : Gary Elliott
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439671842
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The 1849 Cholera Outbreak in Jefferson City written by Gary Elliott and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1849, a steamship named after President James Monroe headed from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, Iowa. The passengers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Philadelphia. At St. Louis, they were joined with a group of California gold diggers from Jeffersonville, Indiana. But their trip was interrupted when cholera broke out on board. Local fourteen-year-old James McHenry discovered the steamship after it landed at Jefferson City and observed the dead and dying victims along the riverbank. Author Gary Elliott details the history of the outbreak in the city and its far-reaching effects.
Author : Scott Wilson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786479922
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Resting Places written by Scott Wilson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates, a brief summary of the subject's claim to fame and their burial site location or as much as is known. Grave location within a cemetery is provided in many cases, as well as places of cremation and sites where ashes were scattered. Source information is provided.
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Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
Author : Katie Day
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199860025
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Faith on the Avenue written by Katie Day and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a richly illustrated, revelatory study of Philadelphia's Germantown Avenue, home to a diverse array of more than 90 Christian and Muslim congregations, Katie Day explores the formative and multifaceted role of religious congregations within an urban environment. Germantown Avenue cuts through Philadelphia for eight and a half miles, from the affluent neighborhood of Chestnut Hill to the high crime section known as ''the Badlands.'' The congregations along this route range from the wealthiest to the poorest populations in Philadelphia. Some congregants are immigrants who find safety and support in close fellowship, while others are long-time residents whose congregations are actively involved in providing social services. Cities undergo constant change, and their congregations change with them. As Day observes, some congregations have sprung up in former commercial strips, harboring new arrivals and recreating a sense of home, and others form an anchor for a neighborhood across generations, providing a connection to the past and a hope of stability for the future. Social scientists, urban planners, and politicians have long overlooked the agency of communities of faith in the construction of the social, cultural, economic, and physical reality of life in the city. Drawing on years of research, in-depth interviews with religious leaders and congregants, and a wealth of demographic data, Day demonstrates the powerful influence cities exert on their congregations, and the surprising and important impact congregations have on their urban environments.
