Sources and Photo Credits

This webpage was created by Derek Weis in October 2010.

Please use this site in good faith and do not attempt to present any text or images as your own work.

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