Central Pennsylvania's journey from slavery to freedom
Study Areas:
Anti-Slavery
Community:
Now Available
The
Year of Jubilee
by George Nagle
New ebook now available at www.smashwords.com $3.99
In June 1863, the African American community of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania watched as Confederate soldiers invaded the free soil of their state and threatened the freedom that they had fought so hard and so long to establish. Although faced with certain death or enslavement if they were captured, the community stood fast, and heroically came to the defense of the Keystone State in its hour of crisis. Non-fiction, history. 687+ pages.
Available
now at Smashwords.
Available now at
Diesel eBooks. Soon available in all major ebook
stores (mid-September).
Print edition is being prepared.
Find
it at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/21796 or
www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/item/9781452497464/The-Year-of-Jubilee-eBook.html
My
summer reading:
John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail (Westholme, 2010)
Just starting to get into it, but if the rest of the book is anything like the opening chapter (and it promises to be), this one will be on my favorites list for a long time.
On the web:
The
Lumenarium
The official Blog of the Afrolumens Project
Freedom
Lies Just North
People, places and tours of the Underground Railroad in Gettysburg and Adams
County.
John
Brown the Aboliltionist: a Biographer's Blog
Any time you spend reading about John Brown is time well spent.
Timbuctoo:
Free settlement in NJ
Video news item with connections to Pennsylvania UGRR
Berks County
UGRR tours
Central Pennsylvania African American Museum
September 26, 2010