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Author Biddle, Daniel R.

Title Tasting freedom : Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America / Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 CATTO    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO CATTO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.092 B47    Check Shelf
Description x, 616 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [491]-602) and index.
Contents Charleston -- Arm in arm -- "Keep the flame burning..." -- With giants -- Lessons -- The Irish, the killers, and Squire McMullen -- "Arise, young North" -- How much I yearn to be a man -- A chance on the pavement -- The wolf killers -- Manhood -- The battle for streetcars -- Baseball -- The hide of the rhinoceros -- Election day -- The Venus of the high trapeze -- Epilogue: The legacy.
Subject Catto, Octavius V., 1839-1871.
Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
African American political activists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
African American teachers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
African American baseball players -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Civil rights movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
McMullen, William, 1824-1901.
Racism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Added Author Dubin, Murray.
ISBN 9781592134656 hardcover alkaline paper
1592134653 hardcover alkaline paper
9781592134670 (e-book)
159213467X (e-book)
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