Description: Harvard University Press, 1988, hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good hardcover in Very Good- dust jacket. Light edgewear to dj. DJ is in a protective and removable mylar cover. "This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash shows how, from colonial times through the Revolution and into the turbulent 1830s, blacks in the City of Brotherly Love struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish neighborhoods and social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children in schools, forge a political consciousness, and train black leaders who would help abolish slavery."--from the dj. Illustrated with b&w photos. 8vo – 7 ¾” to 9 1/2" tall. 354 pp
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Publication Year: 1988
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Author: Gary B. Nash
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Original Language: English
Genre: History
Topic: African American, Phildelphia history, black history, United States history
Edition: First Edition
