Author: Gary B. Nash

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780674309333

This book is the first to trace the fortunes of the earliest large free black community in the U.S. Nash shows how black Philadelphians struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children, and train leaders who would help abolish slavery.