Cresheim Farm

Antje Ulrike Mattheus grew up in post-World War II West Germany and came to the US at 18 to be an organizer for the United Farmworkers Union. She has worked with a range of community, academic, direct action, and anti-violence programs to address white supremacy, race, class and gender inequalities. She has innovated grassroots adult education and empowerment programs and co-founded White People Confronting Racism, which has been conducting anti-racism workshops for white people since 1995. She enjoys restoring old buildings.

Introduction

PART I: Origins

1 The Unami Lenape: Conquest, Genocide, Resistance, and Survival

2 Colonization of Germantown: The Krefelders Arrive

3 The Mennonite Tyson Family: The Dawn of Cresheim Farm

4 Cresheim Farm Buildings as of 1703: Imprinting the Land with Fences and Stones

PART II: Colonization and Whiteness

5 The Mennonite Conrads Family: Outsiders Become White and Middle Class

6 Discontent Before the Revolution: Class and Caste

7 Cresheim Farm Buildings as of the 1770s: A White American Institution

8 Germantown During the Revolution: A Battle and A White House

PART III: Manifest Destiny and Class Struggle

9 Colonel Roumfort: Military, Law, and Order

10 The Gowen Empire: Upper Class Life in the Gilded Age

11 Franklin Gowen: An Anti-Union Activist

12 The Gowen Housing Estate: The End of Farming

PART IV: Race, Gender, and Activism

13 Adelaide Neall: A Suffragette in Publishing

14 Elizabeth and Robert Yarnall: Quaker Peace Activists

15 Slavery and the Underground Railroad in Germantown

16 Workshop of the World: From Sparkle to Rust

17 Black and White: Activists in Germantown

18 The Mattheus-Kairys Family at Cresheim Farm