Study Areas

Enslavement

Anti-Slavery

Free Persons of Color

Underground Railroad

The Violent Decade

US Colored Troops

Year of Jubilee (1863)

20th Century

Anti-Slavery, Abolition and Political Agitation

Featured Pages

• A Jubilee of Freedom:  Harrisburg's African American Population Hails the Emancipation Proclamation
• J. Miller McKim Visits a Washington Slave Prison, 1838
• Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison Visit Harrisburg, August 1847
• Anti-Slavery Acitivities of the Alexander Graydon Family in Harrisburg

Anti-Slavery History

• Harrisburg's African American Community Opposes Colonization, 1831
• Dauphin County Citizens Petition Congress in Support of Colonization
• White Mobs Terrorize Columbia's African American Residents, 1834
• Columbia's White Citizens Attempt to Buy Out Black Property Holders
• Emancipation Day: Harrisburg Celebrations
• Emancipation Day: Carlisle Celebrations
• Biography of Octavius V. Catto: "Forgotten Black Hero of Philadelphia" by Andy Waskie, Ph.D.  Revised, February 20, 2004.
• "Our Alma Mater:" An Address by Octavius V. Catto  by Andy Waskie, Ph.D.
• The Underground Railroad in Central Pennsylvania

Covering the history of African Americans in central Pennsylvania from the colonial era through the Civil War.

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The Year of Jubilee, Volume One: Men of God, Volume Two: Men of Muscle