African-Americans in Chester
& Delaware Counties
(This web site also includes information
on non-whites, which could include Native Americans and dark-complected
Europeans)
MABEL _____
with John M. Broomall V
in Philadelphia about 1920. |
The information we have on this page concerns
African-Americans and non-whites primarily in Chester and Delaware Counties,
PA, with a few in Philadelphia, Delaware and elsewhere. We have found three
non-whites with the surname of BROOMALL, BROMELL and BROOMHALL. As a help
to African-American researchers, we will also list on this page, the names
of any blacks or non-whites that we come across in our research. In addition,
we have gleaned some family history that may be of interest to African-American
researchers.
If you have material to contribute to this page,
please contact Anne Wiegle.
How to use
this site-Databases |
African American Cemetery which contains the
graves of Civil War soldiers? Men from the 3rd, 6th, and other USCT units
are buried there along with veterans from othere units. The last two burials
there were in the late 1950's, and were WW2 vets. The funeral home is still
in operation in Oxford ( I believe ) . Veterans records of the burials are
available.
For more info contact Jonathan Nutt
http://pages.prodigy.net/stanley.way/coatesville/
BOOK AVAILABLE:
Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color,
By Anita Wills
ARTICLE: Black Communities
and the Christiana Resistance of 1851
By Anita Wills
Information on Lincoln University
By Coni Porter Uzelac
HOW TO USE THIS WEBSITE
To search by name or surname, go to our AFRICAN-AMERICAN
INDEX.
To see who is researching a surname, go to the
AFRICAN-AMERICAN SURNAME REGISTRY
You can also search names in the INDEX
OF SLAVE OWNERS
Search our DATA BASES OF VARIOUS SOURCES
LINKS to other websites of interest to African-American
& Non-White Researchers.
Information on MAIL LISTS with African, colored
or Native Americn interest.
ARTICLES
BIOGRAPHY: DR.
ELI AYERS: A
white man who aided in the emancipation movement by founding the Nation
of Liberia.
A TRIP TO MARYLAND: John Martin
Broomall 1st, who later became congressman and judge, was an ardent supporter
of the abolition of slavery, and also of voting rights for women. Here is
the story, recounted by his son, William Booth Broomall, of a trip to Maryland
to bring to freedom a runaway slave who had been unjustly captured by a
slave hunter.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY: Some early
history contributed by Coni Porter Uzelac.
THE MOORS OF DELAWARE
Joseph A. Romeo has provided us with information about this ethnic
group of mixed race.
BLACK COMMUNITIES AND THE CHRISTIANA
RESISTANCE OF 1851 Anita Wills has provided an excerpt from her
book, Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color. This
article tells about black communities in Chester and Lancaster counties,
and describes the Christiana Resistance of 1851, a backlash to the Fugitive
Slave Act.
© 1998 - 2004 by Anne Wiegle