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Philadelphia is considered to be one of only a few American Colonial cities that gave birth to the American Revolution and democracy in the United States. However, as early as 1639, masses of enslaved Africans and former slaves who had purchased their freedom were living among the free whites of Philadelphia. Though afforded only the most rudimentary rights, many not even allowed the dignity of literacy, the African American community in Philadelphia still became one of the reckoning forces in this great city's history.
Philadelphia 1639-2000 recounts the African American contribution to the City of Brotherly Love. This beautiful collection of images, many culled from the renowned Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University, celebrates the culture and lives of blacks in Philadelphia, who had long lived out of sight of their white neighbors. Since the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Philadelphia succeeded in entering the economic, social, and political mainstream but still had to struggle to attain the real freedom automatically granted to European Americans.
Charles L. Blockson
2000, 7" x 10", hard cover, 160 pp.
ISBN: 9780738504728
111-B0472
