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Local InterestOn Tuesday, November 12, 2024 The Carlisle United Methodist Church, at 333 S. Spring Garden St., Carlisle, PA 17013, will host a screening of Keystones Oral Histories latest documentary "A History of the Underground Railroad and Abolitionists Throughout South Central Pennsylvania." This screening will begin at 6:00 PM. The event is free to the public. Read Joe McClure's PennLive biography of William Howard Day, a prominent African American abolitionist associated with Harrisburg. Read Joyce M. Davis' PennLive article about Hodges Heights, a historic African American development in Lower Paxton Township. Site NewsBackground History--"1700 and 1726 Acts for the Regulation of Negroes." Full text of the harsh "Black Codes" passed in colonial Pennsylvania to regulate free Blacks and enslaved persons. Check it all out here: 1700 and 1726 Acts for the Regulation of Negroes. Community--"Former Slaves." News items about formerly enslaved African American residents. Check it out here: Commemoration: Photos and video from Harrisburg's 2010 "Grand Review of Colored Troops." We have pictures and video: | ||
On This DateOctober events important to local African American history (see the whole year)October 1, 1851: The “Jerry Rescue” takes place in New York. William Henry, known as “Jerry,” had escaped slavery and was working in New York when he was arrested under the new Fugitive Slave Law. He was successfully rescued by a crowd of abolitionists and African Americans, and became a symbol of defiance against the new and hated law. October 1, 1857: The “Colored People’s Burying Ground” in Harrisburg at Meadow Lane and Chestnut Streets is sold at public auction, the last parcel of the old city burial grounds to be sold for development. Remains were reinterred in the Harris Free Cemetery and possibly later moved to Lincoln Cemetery in Penbrook. October 2, 1800: Nat Turner is born in Southampton County, Virginia. October 2, 1851: During the night of Thursday, October 2, John Dunmore is arrested in Harrisburg, taken before Slave Commissioner Richard McAllister and accused of being a runaway slave. The hearing was conducted behind closed doors and shuttered windows in McAllister's office. However the person who was seeking his return testified that Dunmore was not his slave, and Dunmore was released. October 3, 1863: The War Department orders the enlistment of African American troops in the slave states of Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee. October 10, 1871: Equal rights activist and educator Octavius V. Catto is shot to death on Election Day in Philadelphia as he worked to protect African Americans at the polls. October 11, 1722: Pennsylvania Colonial Governor William Keith sends a letter to local Native American tribes appealing for their help in returning fugitive slaves, promising “one Good Gun and two Blankets for each Negro,” returned to provincial authorities. October 12, 1866: Chosen Friends Lodge No. 43, an African American Masonic Lodge, is warranted in Harrisburg. October 13, 1864: Maryland voters narrowly adopt a new state constitution that abolishes slavery. October 13, 2004: The Riverside School in Harrisburg is renamed the T. Morris Chester School to honor the city native who became a famous attorney, war correspondent, civil rights activist and political tactician in Reconstruction-era Louisiana. October 16, 1859: In the last few hours of the day, John Brown begins his raid of the U.S. Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. October 16, 1995: The Million Man March attracts one of the largest crowds in history to the National Mall in Washington, DC to hear eighty speakers advocate increased community involvement and political activism by African American males. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan organized the event, which drew an estimated 837,000 participants. October 19, 1825: William Howard Day is born in New York. October 25, 1836: American Anti-slavery Society lecturer Jonathan Blanchard arrives in Harrisburg for about two weeks of lectures. He stays with the Alexander Graydon family, on Market Street. October 31, 1780: Deadline for slave holders in Pennsylvania to register their slaves with the county clerk, according to the newly passed Gradual Abolition Law. The penalty for failure to register their slaves on time was immediate emancipation of those enslaved. |
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