Paul Shackel's New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland PDF

By Paul Shackel

ISBN-10: 0520266293

ISBN-13: 9780520266292

ISBN-10: 0520266307

ISBN-13: 9780520266308

New Philadelphia, Illinois, was once based in 1836 via Frank McWorter, a Kentucky slave who bought his personal freedom after which got land at the prairie for developing a new—and integrated—community. McWorter offered estate to different freed slaves and to whites, and used the proceeds to shop for his kin out of slavery. the city inhabitants reached a hundred and sixty, yet declined whilst the railroad bypassed it. through 1940 New Philadelphia had almost disappeared from the panorama. during this e-book, Paul A. Shackel resurrects McWorter’s nice fulfillment of self-determinism, independence, and the desire to exist. Shackel describes a cooperative attempt via universities, the country museum, the hot Philadelphia organization, and diverse descendents to discover the heritage and archaeology of this strange multi-racial community.

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