Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Charles Clinton Reinecker (2)
- Clarence Collins (2)
- George Bushman (2)
- Licensed Battlefield Guide (2)
- Murder (2)
-
- ACHS (1)
- Adams County (1)
- Adams County Historical Society (1)
- Anti-Slavery (1)
- Author (1)
- Bondage (1)
- Elsie Singmaster (1)
- Elsie Singmaster Lewars (1)
- Fiction (1)
- Freedom (1)
- Gettysburg Author (1)
- Gradual Emancipation (1)
- Pennsylvania Emancipation (1)
- Pennsylvania German (1)
- Pennsylvania History (1)
- Servitude (1)
- Slave (1)
- Slavery (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in History
The Brutal Murder Of George J. Bushman, Conrad B. Richter, Dale J. Molina
The Brutal Murder Of George J. Bushman, Conrad B. Richter, Dale J. Molina
Adams County History
In the fall of 1918 there occurred in Adams County a singularly brutal murder that brought the County and the town of Gettysburg to a shocked standstill. The tentacles of this event would reach into four Pennsylvania counties: Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, and Philadelphia, and eventually the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The investigation of the crime and the trial of the perpetrators involved so many public officials and families, as well as the extended judicial system and geographical locations within and without the County, that we have included a Cast of Characters and Locations to assist the reader in following this convoluted …
Pennsylvania Legislation Relating To Slavery
Pennsylvania Legislation Relating To Slavery
Adams County History
The following acts have been taken, complete or in part, from the published volumes of The Statutes At Large of Pennsylvania and Laws of Pennsylvania. These extracts are not all-inclusive, but do cover the years 1725/6-1847, from the province's first general statement of the legal standing of blacks, full-blooded and mixed, and the treatment to be afforded them, up to the state's rewritten and strengthened prohibition of the kidnapping of free blacks and the seizing of fugitive slaves. Included are not only acts showing the status and the protection of slaves, whether residents or sojourners, but also those requiring resident …