Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania by Beverly C. Tomek

Posted by on May 13, 2022 in | Comments Off on Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania by Beverly C. Tomek Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania by Beverly C. Tomek Temple University Press, 144 pp., paperback $19.95 For generations, textbook histories discussing Pennsylvania and slavery made Pennsylvania look good. They focused on Quaker antislavery activism, passage of a pathbreaking gradual abolition law, and the emergence of a series of notable antislavery leaders, both African American and white....
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