Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-18401820s. This failure of the great and much-watched "Philadelphia experiment" prefigured the course of race relations in America in our own century, an enduringly tragic part of this country's past. |
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Introduction 1 | 1 |
The Black Revolution in Philadelphia | 38 |
Becoming Free | 66 |
Copyright | |
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