1838 Black MetropolisJul 141 min readA Useful Framework for Understanding Black Associations in pre Civil War PhiladelphiaStudents of the Black population of Philadelphia before the Civil War will encounter a wide variety of types of organizations. As we have...
1838 Black MetropolisJun 168 min readFinding Beneficial HallOn May 17, 1838, Pennsylvania Hall burned to the ground. Probably because so much of the funding came from the Quaker community, and...
1838 Black MetropolisJun 35 min readThe Two Rebeccas: Building a Black, Feminist, Shaker, and Queer Sisterhood in Philly in 1858Imagine that it's 1871 and you've just come from class at the Institute for Colored Youth. As you walk east you see Francis Ellen...