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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785341403321

Autore

Shackel Paul A

Titolo

New Philadelphia : an archaeology of race in the heartland / / Paul A. Shackel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley [Calif.], : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

1-282-91789-7

9786612917899

0-520-94783-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

977.3/453

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Illinois - New Philadelphia

Community life - Illinois - New Philadelphia - History

Cultural pluralism - Illinois - New Philadelphia - History

New Philadelphia (Ill.) History

New Philadelphia (Ill.) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Settlement of New Philadelphia -- Chapter 2. Expansion and Decline -- Chapter 3. It Was Never Lost -- Chapter 4. From Grass Roots to a National Movement -- Chapter 5. The First Field Season -- Chapter 6. Race and the Illusion of Harmony -- Chapter 7. The Apple Festival and National Significance -- Chapter 8. Family Reunion and Division -- Chapter 9. Three Generations of Building and One Hundred Years of Living in New Philadelphia -- Chapter 10. A Case for Landmark Status -- Chapter 11. Some Thoughts, but Not the Final Word -- Appendix -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 new-and integrated-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 McWorter'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.