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Hinsonville, a community at the crossroads : the story of a nineteenth-century African-American village

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Main Author: Russo, Marianne H., 1936-
Contributors: Russo, Paul Anthony, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Selingsgrove, [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, c2005.
Subjects and Genres:
Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Hinsonville > History > 19th century.
Landowners > Pennsylvania > Hinsonville > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Hinsonville > Biography.
Landowners > Pennsylvania > Hinsonville > Biography.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Hinsonville > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Hinsonville > Biography.
Hinsonville (Pa.) > History > 19th century.
Hinsonville (Pa.) > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • A community on the doorstep of slavery
  • The geographic and political landscape
  • The earliest families
  • The family as an institution
  • The Hosanna church
  • Life at midcentury
  • The great debate over slavery
  • The long shadow of the Fugitive Slave Act
  • The founding of Ashmun Institute
  • The Civil War and its aftermath
  • The great church split
  • The vanished village.

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