(((JaneinNJ)))Oct 28
Incredibly cool project in my hometown. || A collaboration between the 1838 Black Metropolis history nonprofit and Swarthmore College is creating a clearer picture of what daily life was like for the roughly 20,000 free Black people living in Philadelphia at that time. || Gift link. #Philadelphia #DiverseCity #FreeBlackPopulation #PreCivilWar
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A new project has turned ‘dry numbers’ into a ‘vivid picture of Black life’ in 1840s Philly

1838 Black Metropolis and Swarthmore College have partnered to compare two censuses taken of Philly's free Black community in the mid-19th century.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Sim BarrJun 3, 2023

As a young child growing up in Virginia, Willa Cather heard her family telling and retelling a story about a young enslaved woman who made her way to Canada with the help of the slave owner’s abolitionist daughter. Sapphira and the Slave Girl was Cather’s final novel, published in 1940, and based and that story she overheard as a child.

Cather, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Our Own in 1923, passed away in 1947 at the age of 73.

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