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Bibliography:
Afrolumens Project. "The African American Burial Ground Near Fort Hunter."
http://www.afrolumens.org/rising_free/fthunta.html (site taken down May 2012)
Beaver, J. Kenneth. "Uptown Graveyard Holds History of City Pioneers." Undated newspaper clipping from the Patriot-News on file at the Dauphin-Middle Paxton Historical Society.
Berlin, Ira. "The Slow Death of Slavery in the North." In Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. New York: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
"Black Cemetery (Near Ft. Hunter)." Keystone Seekers Genealogical Quarterly 7:4 (Winter 1990): 103.
Dauphin-Middle Paxton Historical Society. "Leonard P. Craig: Notable Foreman on the Reading Railroad." Dauphin-Middle Paxton Historical Society Newsletter (February 2010): 4-6.
------. "The Suspicious Death of Cyrus Craig." Dauphin-Middle Paxton Historical Society Newsletter (March 2010): 4-7.
Dickson, Carl A. Fort Hunter Mansion and Park: A Guide. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002.
"Track Foreman for the Reading Road 52 Years." Reading Eagle. July 14, 1912, 14.
Photo Credits:
Photographs courtesy of Dauphin County Parks & Recreation.
Further Reading:
Burg, Steven B. "The North Queen Street Cemetery and the African-American Experience in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania History 77 (Winter 2010): 1-36.
Eggert, Gerald G. "The Impact of the Fugitive Slave Law on Harrisburg: A Case Study." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 109 (October 1985): 537-569.
McAllister, Mary Catharine. Descendants of Archibald McAllister, of West Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pa, 1730-1898. Harrisburg, PA: Schaeffer's Printing and Bookbinding House, 1898.
Nagle, George F. The Year of Jubilee: Men of God. George F. Nagle, 2010.
Nash, Gary B. and Jean R. Soderlund. Freedom By Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Rainville, Lynn. "Home at Last: Mortuary Commemoration in Virginian Slave Cemeteries." Markers XXVI (2009): 54-83.
Smith, Eric Ledell. "The Underground Railroad in Dauphin County." Susquehanna Heritage 2 (2004): 3-26.
Trotter, Joe William and Eric Ledell Smith eds. African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives. Harrisburg and University Park: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
Links:
Fort Hunter Mansion and Park
Dauphin-Middle Paxton Historical Society
Historical Society of Dauphin County
Finding Aid, Dauphin County Slave Records, 1788-1825 (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
Dauphin County Tax Lists, Inhabitants, and Slaves 1800 & 1807 (Pennsylvania State Archives)
House Divided Project / Pennsylvania Grand Review