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African American Heritage: Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
African Americans: Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.: Pittsburgh Chapter
Census of the Condition of Colored People in Philadelphia (1)
Census of the Condition of Colored People in Philadelphia (2)
Chester County, Pennsylvania Slave Manumissions (lists of slaves and masters)
Free at Last: Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Guide to African American Resources (Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission)
Journal C of Station No. 2 of the Underground Railroad, Agent William Still, 1852-1857
Negro (Slave) Register of Washington County, Pennsylvania, From 1782 to 1851
Pennsylvania Abolition Society of Friends Manuscript Census Schedules, 1838, 1847, 1856
Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers
Pennsylvania African American Genealogy
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, African-American Census, 1847
Slavery and Underground Railroad Resources (Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission)
Slavery in Pennsylvania
Slavery, Anti-Slavery and the Underground Railroad in Centre County, Pennsylvania (article)
Teenie Harris Archive (Carnegie Museum of Art) (searchable index of newspaper photographs and information)
The Slave Trade, National Archives
This and That Genealogy Tips on Black Dutch and Black Irish, Melungeons, Moravians, Pennsylvania Dutch
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War (Augusta County, Va and Franklin County, PA)
General:
African American Genealogy Group of the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum Newsletter. Philadelphia, PA: Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, v. 1-, 1990-. /Periodical/
African American Genealogy Group. Membership Directory, November 2002. Philadelphia, PA: African American Genealogy Group, 2002. 20p. /GC 974.802 P53aag 2002/
African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Pennsylvania churches and associations. /Microfilm Roll 18/
The Alleghenian: Newsletter of the Western Pennsylvania African American Historical and Genealogical Society. Pittsburgh, PA: Western Pennsylvania African American Historical and Genealogical Society, v.1-3, 1991-94. /Periodical/
American Negro Historical Society Collection, 1790-1905 ( Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1998. 15p. /GC 974.802 P53amn/
Black, Samuel W. The Civil War in Pennsylvania: The African American Experience. Pittsburgh, PA: Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation, 2013. 237p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 P38cbl/
Blockson, Charles L. African Americans in Pennsylvania: Above Ground and Underground, an Illustrated Guide. Harrisburg, PA: RB Books, Seitz & Seitz, Inc., 2001. 320p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Photographs. /GC 974.8 B62aa/
Blockson, Charles L. Pennsylvania's Black History. Philadelphia: Portfolio Associates, 1975. 150p. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. /GC 974.8 B62pe/
Bodnar, John E. Ethnic History in Pennsylvania: A Selected Bibliography. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 1974. Negro bibliography(p. 27-36. /GC 974.8 B628e/
Bransom, Marlene Garrett. Early African American Deaths in the Pittsburgh Courier (1925-1930). Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2012. 6 volumes. Indices. /GC 974.802 P687brm/
Brown, Ira V. The Negro in Pennsylvania History. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1970. 68p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.8 B812NE/
Bumbrey, Jeffrey Nordlinger. A Guide to the Microfilm Publication of the Papers of The Pennsylvania Abolition Society at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1976. 68p. /GC 974.8 B88g/
Cromwell, Adelaide M. Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories: The Cromwell Family in Slavery and Segregation, 1692-1972. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007. 348p. Appendix. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 C882cam/
Dickerson, Dennis C. Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980. Albany, NY: University of New York Press, 1986. 323p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 974.8 D558o/
Forbes, Ella. "But We Have No Country": An Afrocentric Study of the 1851 Christiana Resistance. Philadelphia, PA: E. Forbes, 1991. 160p. Appendices. Bibliography. /GC 974.802 C46bu/
Hodge, Ruth E. Guide to African American Resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2000. 598p. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.802 H23ho/
Lapsansky, Emma. Black Presence in Pennsylvania: "Making it Home." University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1990. 39p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 974.8 L31bl/
Matthews, Harry Bradshaw. African American Freedom Journey in New York and Related Sites, 1823-1870: Freedom Knows No Color. Cherry Hill, NJ: African Homestead Legacy Publishers, 2008. 407p. Index. Bibliography. Notes. Appendices. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 M433af/
Minority Revolutionary War Service, Pennsylvania and the Ohio Frontier, 1775-1783. Washington, DC: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 2000. 30p. /GC 973.34 P38mi/
Moss, Emerson I. African-Americans in the Wyoming Valley, 1778-1990. Wilkes-Barre, PA: Wyoming Historical and Geological Society & the Wilkes University Press, 1992. 167p. Appendices. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.8 M855af/
Nash, Gary B. and Jean R. Soderlund. Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 249p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Tables. /GC 974.8 N173f/
Oblinger, Carl Douglas. New Freedoms, Old Miseries: The Emergence and Disruption of Black Communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1780-1860. Bethlehem, PA: C. D. Oblinger, 1988. 261p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 974.8 Ob4ne/
The Pennsylvania Abolition Society papers, 1775-1975. Ann Arbor, MI: Bell and Howell Information and Learning, 1999. 32 rolls. /Microfilm/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Bank of the State of Mississippi records, 1804-1846. /Series G, Part 3, Rolls 1-18/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Capehart family papers, 1782-1983. /Series J, Part 12, Rolls 20-21/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. George W. Sargent books, 1840-1900. /Series J, Part 6, Rolls 12-15/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. John Steele papers, 1716-1846. /Series J, Part 13, Rolls 13-19/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Leonidas Chalmers Glenn papers, 1752-1907. /Series J, Part 13, Roll 35/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Richard Butler papers, 1795-1889. /Series I, Part 5, Rolls 2-3/
Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1969. Microcopy M816. Philadelphia. /Microfilm Roll 16/
Smith, Billy G. and Richard Wojtowicz. Blacks Who Stole Themselves: Advertisements for Runaways in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1790. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. 222p. Indices. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 973.068 Sm511bl/
Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. 216p. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.8 Sw67un/
Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008. 248p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 974.8 Sw67una/
Taylor, Frances Cloud. The Trackless Trail Leads On: An Exploration of Conductors and Their Stations. Kennett Square, PA: F. C. Taylor, 1995. 82p. Bibliography. /GC 974.802 K39t/
Tomek, Beverly C. Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 296p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.8 T594co/
Trotter, Joe William, Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith. African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 519p. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.8 Af83/
Walker, Joseph E. Negro Labor in the Charcoal Iron Industry of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1969. 22p. Notes. /GC 974.8 W15ne/
Wilbur H. Siebert Collection: Microfilm Edition. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 2001. Underground Railroad. /Microfilm Rolls 12-15/
Adams County:
Creighton, Margaret S. The Colors of Courage: Gettysburg's Forgotten History-Immigrants, Women, and African Americans in the Civil War's Defining Battle. New York: Basic Books, 2005. 321p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 P38cre/
Paradis, James M. African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013. 149p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.74 Aa1pja/
Allegheny County:
Bransom, Marlene Garrett. African American Deaths in the "Afro-America Notes" of the "Pittsburgh Press," Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 26,1896- June 1, 1930. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2018. 322p. /GC 974.802 P687brl/
Bransom, Marlene Garrett. African American Marriages in the "Afro-America Notes" of the "Pittsburgh Press," Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1896-June 15, 1930. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2018. 227p. /GC 974.802 P687brk/
Bransom, Marlene Garrett. Early African American Deaths in the Pittsburgh Courier (1925-1930). Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2012. 6 volumes. Indices. /GC 974.802 P687brm/
Bransom, Marlene Garrett. Early African American Deaths in The Pittsburgh Courier, 1935-1938. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2014. Books 13-15. Indices. /GC 974.802 P687brm 1935-1938/
Bransom, Marlene Garrett. Early African American Deaths in the Pittsburgh Courier, January 13, 1923-December 27, 1924, Book Two. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2011. 232p. Index. /GC 974.802 P687brm 1923-1924/
Bransom, Marlene Garrett. Early African American Deaths in the Pittsburgh Courier, March 25, 1911-December 27, 1912, Book One. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2011. 188p. Index. /GC 974.802 P687brm 1911-1912/
Branson, Marlene Garrett. Early African American Deaths in The Pittsburgh Courier, 1931-1934. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 2013. Books 9 - 11. Indices. /GC 974.802 P687brm, 1931-1934/
Brewer, John M., Jr. African Americans in Pittsburgh. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 974.802 P687bq/
Brewer, John M., Jr. Pittsburgh Jazz. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. 128p. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 974.802 P687bq/
Brown, Eliza Smith et. al. African American Historic Sites Survey of Allegheny County. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1994. 242p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.801 AL5af/
Cole, Bettie and Autumn Redcross. African Americans in Sewickley Valley. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008. 127p. Bibliography. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 974.802 Se89co/
Glasco, Laurence A. The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. 422p. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Maps. /GC 974.802 P687wp/
Gottlieb, Peter. Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-30. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997. 250p. Appendices. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.802 P687go/
Klanderud, Jessica D. Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 222p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.802 P687kL/
Lester, Larry and Sammy J. Miller. Black Baseball in Pittsburgh. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 974.802 P687Le/
Smoot, Pamela Annette. [Black] Self-Help and Community Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1830-1945. Lansing, MI: P. A. Smoot, 1998. 502p. Dissertation. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 974.802 P687smo/
Trotter, Joe W. and Jared N. Day. Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh Since World War II. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 328p. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.802 P687tr/
Trotter, Joe William, Jr. Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism. . Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2020. 248p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.802 P687tra/
Berks County:
Delmar, Frances. The African American Experience at Hopewell Furnace. Elverson, PA: Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, 2012. 24p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.801 B45dfr/
Bucks County:
Kushner, David. Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburg. New York: Walker & Co., 2009. 237p. Index. Notes. Photographs. Bibliography. /GC 974.802 L57Ku/
Cambria County:
McDevitt, Cody. Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash n Pennsylvania. . Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020. 223p. Bibliography, Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.802 J65mcd/
Chester County:
Kashatus, William C. Just Over the Line: Chester County and the Underground Railroad. West Chester, PA: Chester County Historical Society, 2002. 119p. Appendices. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.801 C42kas/
Smedley, R. C. History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania. Lancaster, PA: Office of the Journal, 1883. 407p. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.8 Sm29h / 2005 Reprint: GC 974.801 C42sm/
Taylor, Frances Cloud. The Trackless Trail: The Story of the Underground Railroad in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the Surrounding Community. Kennett Square, PA: F. C. Taylor, 1976. 36p. Bibliography. /GC 974.802 K39ta/
Wesley, Sarah and Catherine C. Quillman. Walking the "Uptown": A Historic African-American Community in West Chester, Pennsylvania. West Chester, PA: Hedgerow Press, 2014. 89p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.802 W522wsb/
Wesley, Sarah and Catherine C. Quillman. Walking the East End: A Historic African-American Community in West Chester, Pennsylvania. West Chester, PA: Hedgerow Press, 2012. 62p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 974.802 W522ws/
Dauphin County:
Scott, John Weldon and Eric Ledell Smith. African Americans of Harrisburg. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. 128p. Photographs. Black America Series. /GC 974.802 H23ry/
Scott, John Weldon. African American Notables of Harrisburg, PA -- Game Book. Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg School District, 2006. 80p. Illustrations. /GC 974.802 H23rya/
Delaware County:
Lemon, Samuel Michael. Go Stand Upon the Rock: From Stories Handed Down by My Grandmother About How Our Ancestors Fought to be Free. S.l.: Buckhorn Press, 2012. 297p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2 R437Le/
Erie County:
Thompson, Sarah S. Journey from Jerusalem: An Illustrated Introduction to Erie's African American History, 1795-1995. Erie, PA: Erie County Historical Society, 1996. 98p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Maps. /GC 974.802 Er4t/
Franklin County:
Karper, Luther Scott, Jr. Dum Spiro, Spero: Chambersburg's Black Civil War Soldiers and Sailors. Shippensburg, PA: Shippensburg University, 2013. 165p. Bibliography. Indices. Notes. /GC 974.802 C35ds/
Ruffin, C. Bernard. . Voices of Chambersburg: An Oral History of the African American Community of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Greencastle, PA: Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc., 2011-. 266p. Index. Notes. Vol. I of V. /GC 974.801 F85ru/
Greene County:
Bransom, Marlene Garrett and William Allen Davison. Early African American Life in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Indiana, PA: The A. G. Halldin Publishing Company, Inc., 2002. Illustrations. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.801 G83br/
Indiana County:
Stephenson, Clarence D. Impact of the Slavery Issue on Indiana County. Marion Center, PA: Mahoning Mimeograph & Pamphlet Service, 155p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. Indiana County Historical Series Number Two. /GC 974.801 In2ry/
Lancaster County:
Hopkins, Leroy T., ed. "The Negro Entry Book: A Document of Lancaster City's Antebellum Afro-American Community" in Journal: A Quarterly Publication of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 88, no. 4, p.142-180. /Periodical/
Mercer County:
Barksdale-Hall, Roland. African Americans in Mercer County. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009. 127p. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 974.801 M53bh/
Montgomery County:
Scott, Donald Sr. Camp William Penn. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2008. 127p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Photographs. Images of America Series. /GC 973.74 P38sco/
Perry County:
Taylor, Janet. African Americans in Perry County: 1820-1925. Newport, PA: The Perry Historicans, 2011. 172p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Indices. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.801 P42tj/
Philadelphia County:
Aden, Robert C. Upon the Ruins of Liberty: Slavery, the President's House at Independence National Historical Park, and Public Memory. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2015. 243p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.802 P53ade/
Alnutt, Brian E. African-American Amusement and Recreation in Philadelphia, 1876-1926. Bethlehem, PA: B. E. Alnutt, 2003. 307p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53aln/
Armstrong, Erica R. Negro Wenches, Washer Women, and Literate Ladies: The Transforming Identities of African American Women in Philadelphia, 1780-1854. New York: E. R. Armstrong, 2000. 260p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53ar/
Biddle, Daniel R. and Murray Dubin. Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2010. 616p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.802 P53bd/
Blockson, Charles L. Philadelphia, 1639-2000. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, Inc., 2000. 160p. Black America Series. Photographs. /GC 974.802 P53blo/
Crumbley, Deidre Helen. . Saved and Sanctified, The History of African American Religions: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2012. 210p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53cd/
Davis, Emilie. Emilie Davis's Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. 211p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.802 P53dem/
Diemer, Andrew K. . The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863. . Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. 253p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 D564po/
DuBois, W. E. B. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1899. 1996 reprint. 520p. Index. Tables. /GC 974.802 P53dub/
Executive Board Friend's Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity. Report of the Executive Board of the Friends' Association of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity, for the Relief of Colored Freedmen. Philadelphia: Sherman, Son & Co., 1864. 32p. /GC 973.068 F914re/
Felix, Stephanie Yvette. Committed to Their Own: African American Women Leaders in the YWCA, the YWCA of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1870-1970. Philadelphia, PA: S. Y. Felix, 1999. 281p. Dissertation. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53fe/
Gregg, Robert. Sparks from the Anvil of Oppression: Philadelphia's African Methodists and Southern Migrants, 1890-1940. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1993. 272p. Index. Notes. Photographs. Tables. /GC 974.802 P53gp/
Kashatus, William C. William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel of Philadelphia. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. 348p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 K151ws/
Kodosky, Robert J. Tuskegee in Philadelphia: Rising to the Challenge. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020. 144p. Bibliography. Photographs. /GC 940.5410 K81tu/
Lane, Roger. Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. 213p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53Lan/
Nash, Gary B. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. 354p. Index. Notes. Illustrations. /GC 974.802 P53n/
Negro Protest Pamphlets: A Compendium. New York: Arno Press, c1969. 6 pamphlets. /GC 973.068 N3127/
Newman, Richard and James Mueller. Antislavery and Abolition in Philadelphia: Emancipation and the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the City of Brotherly Love. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 260p. Index. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53new/
Perkins, Linda Marie. Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth: A Model of Nineteenth Century Black Female Educational and Community Leadership, 1837-1902. Urbana, IL: L. M. Perkins, 1978. 348p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53per/
Rankin-Hill, Lesley M. A Biohistory of 19th-Century Afro-Americans: The Burial Remains of a Philadelphia Cemetery. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1997. 203p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Tables. /GC 974.802 P53ran/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Jackson, Riddle, and Company papers, 1835-1839. /Series J, Part 5, Roll 19/
Temple, Brian. Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement. . Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014. 232p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53tb/
Tomek, Beverly C. Pennsylvania Hall: A "Legal Lynching" in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 206p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53tk/
Whitehead, Karsonya Wise. Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2014. 277p. Bibliography. Illustratons. Index. Notes. Photographs. GC 974.802 P53wk/
Winch, Julie. Philadelphia's Black Elite: Activism, Accommodation, and the Struggle for Autonomy, 1787-1848. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1988. 240p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53wj/
Winch, Julie. The Elite of Our People: Joseph Willson's Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. 196p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. /GC 974.802 P53will/
Venango County:
Ayers, Edward L. The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. 576p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.7 Ay24t/
Washington County:
Bell, Raymond M. Black Persons in Early Washington County, Pennsylvania. Washington, PA: R. M. Bell, 1978. 8p. /GC 974.801 W27bc/
Mainwaring, W. Thomas. Abandoned Tracks: The Underground Railroad in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. 290p. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 974.801 W27mw/
Negro Register, 1792-1851, Washington County, Pennsylvania. [Washington County, PA]: s. n., [1974]. 50p. Index. /GC 974.801 W27wan Oversize/
York County:
McClure, James. Almost Forgotten: A Glimpse at Black History in York County, PA. York, PA: York County Heritage Trust, 2002. 101. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Photographs. /GC 974.801 Y8mb/