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The toil of both enslaved and free Black men, women and children helped transform Erie County into the maritime and industrial powerhouse it became.
The Quiet Force of Emma Lawrence The story of Erie's first Black female business owner by Erin Phillips Erin Phillips In the preface to Sarah Thompson's Journey from Jerusalem — one of the few books to be written about Black history in Erie — she begins: "The history of the City of Erie begins in 1795. The history of African Americans in Erie begins at the same time, but, in the unfortunate tradition of US history, standard accounts of the past two hundred years present a one-sided picture which does not adequat...