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White Abolitionists, Black Fighters of Waverly, Pa.
1The ‘Negro Question’
Overview of racial attitudes of Northern whites during the 1800s. Covers property rights, dissent, abolition, religion, and constitutional conflicts.
2Settling on Waverly
Discusses the flight of fugitive slaves and the key role of white allies in establishing Waverly’s black settlement. Traces its peak and demise, and the mixed attitudes of white neighbors.
3War & ‘Black Soldiery’
Looks at one of Waverly’s main black Civil War regiments and at the home-front conflicts over Lincoln, Southern secession, the draft, and black men in uniform.
4Charging into History
Chronicles Waverly’s other principal black regiment and its heroism. Looks at both the praise the men won and the unremitting scorn they felt from Northern ‘Copperheads.’
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