THRIFTY AND INTELLIGENT, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS: WILMINGTON S FREE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY AS PORTRAYED IN THE BLUE HEN S CHICKEN, 1846-1852. |
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Dalleo, P.
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1/1/98
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Journal
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Delaware History
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28(1)p.39-70
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African American
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The Wilmington newspaper Blue Hen s Chicken reported on Delaware s free African-American community. Its primary editor, Francis Vincent, sympathized with Delaware s antebellum blackpopulation, which was relatively politically independent but economically stressed. The article includes excerpts from the newspaper; an appendix lists African Americans whose namesappeared in the newspaper.Based on newspaper files and other manuscripts in the Historical Society of Delaware, Wilmington, and in the Delaware Public Archives, Dover; 5 illus., 3 photos, 82 notes
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