Black Philadelphia Reference

This list contains 24 titles

A gentleman of color : the life of James Forten / Julie Winch. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref. Uz Forten A3288.O.
African Americans in Pennsylvania : shifting historical perspectives / edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: University Park : Pennsylvania Historial and Museum Commission and The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref. Ii 4 A2850.O.
Antislavery and abolition in Philadelphia : emancipation and the long struggle for racial justice in the City of Brotherly Love / edited by Richard Newman and James Mueller. by Series: Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref. Ii 4 A4869.O.
Black founders : the free black community in the early republic / Phillip S. Lapsansky, curator ; essay by Richard S. Newman. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : Library Company of Philadelphia, ©2008
Other title:
  • Free black community in the early republic
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref. Ok A10830.Q.7.
But one race : the life of Robert Purvis / Margaret Hope Bacon. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007
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Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Uz Purvis A3962.O.
Colored amazons : crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 / Kali N. Gross. by Series: Politics, history, and culture
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006
Other title:
  • Crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910
Online access:
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ii 4 A3906.O.
Forging faith, building freedom : African American faith experiences in Delaware, 1800-1980 / Constance J. Cooper, Lewis V. Baldwin. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Dover, Del. : Delaware Heritage Press, c2015
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Yb A10611.Q.
Forging freedom : the formation of Philadelphia's Black community, 1720-1840 / Gary B. Nash. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1988
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref. Uy 8 A999.O.
Freedom by degrees : emancipation in Pennsylvania and its aftermath / Gary B. Nash, Jean R. Soderlund. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (2)Call number: Ref. Ii 4 A1863.O (Soder- lund), ...
Freedom's lawmakers : a directory of Black officeholders during Reconstruction / Eric Foner. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: REF Uy 5 9444.Q.
Freedom's prophet : Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers / Richard S. Newman. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : New York University Press, c2008
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Uz Allen A4084.O.
Gateway to freedom : the hidden history of the Underground Railroad / Eric Foner. by
Edition: First Edition.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref. Ii 4 A5231.O.
James Forten : liberty's black champion / Julie Winch. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [S.l.]: Julie Winch, 2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (2)Call number: Uz Forten A4497.O, ...
Kidnappers in Philadelphia : Isaac Hopper's tales of oppression, 1780-1843 / [edited by] Daniel E. Meaders. by Series: Studies in African American and African Canadian history and culture
Edition: 2nd ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Cherry Hill, N.J. : Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2009
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref. Ii 4 A4329.O.
Philadelphia African Americans : color, class and style, 1840-1940 ; an exhibition in the Museum of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, July 4-July 9, 1988. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia, Pa. : Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, c1988
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (2)Call number: Ref. Ok 8763.Q.9, ...
Philadelphia's black elite : activism, accommodation, and the struggle for autonomy / Julie Winch. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1988
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ii 4 A2273.O (Winch).
Race and opportunity : Black Philadelphia during the era of the great migration, 1916-1930 / by Charles Ashley Hardy III. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: [Philadelphia : s.n.], 1989
Dissertation note: Thesis (Ph.D)--Temple University, 1989.
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Uy 8 A1434.O.
Race patriotism : protest and print culture in the AME Church / Julius H. Bailey. by Series: Christian Recorder
Edition: 1st ed.
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012
Availability: Not available: Library Company of Philadelphia: Checked out (1).
Tasting freedom : Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America / Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (2)Call number: Ii 4 A4287.O, ...
The elite of our people : Joseph Willson's sketches of Black upper-class life in antebellum Philadelphia / edited by Julie Winch. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2000
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (2)Call number: Ii 4 A3115.O, ...
The Philadelphia Negro : a social study / with a new introduction by Elijah Anderson ; together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1996
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref Im 3 A2767.O.
The Politics of Black Citizenship : Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863 / Andrew K. Diemer. by Series: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2016
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref. Ii 4 A5425.O.
The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author : together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders, and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road / by William Still. by Series: Ebony classics
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Chicago : Johnson Publishing Company Inc., 1970, c1871
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref Ii 4 A2794.O.
We will be satisfied with nothing less : the African American struggle for equal rights in the North during Reconstruction / Hugh Davis. by
Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction
Publication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011
Other title:
  • African American struggle for equal rights in the North during Reconstruction
Availability: Items available for loan: Library Company of Philadelphia (1)Call number: Ref. Ii 4 A4868.O.
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