New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland

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New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland

New Philadelphia, Illinois, was founded in 1836 by Frank McWorter, a Kentucky slave who purchased his own freedom and then acquired land on the prairie for establishing a newâ€”and integratedâ€”community. McWorter sold property to other freed slaves and to whites, and used the proceeds to buy his family out of slavery. The town population reached 160, but declined when the railroad bypassed it. By 1940 New Philadelphia had virtually disappeared from the landscape. In this book, Paul A. Shackel resurrects McWorterâ€™s great achievement of self-determinism, independence, and the will to exist. Shackel describes a cooperative effort by two universities, the state museum, the New Philadelphia Association, and numerous descendents to explore the history and archaeology of this unusual multi-racial community.

Country	USA
Author	Paul Shackel
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520947832
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	240
PublicationDate	2010-11-16
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2011-01-31
Studio	University of California Press

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