[PDF.89tz] Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North

Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North

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 | #1988114 in Books |  1991-10-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 2 |  9.56 x1.08 x6.38l, | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| An important historical event that is often overlooked|By AJC|Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North by Thomas P. Slaughter covers an event leading up to the American Civil War that is every bit as important as John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. On my many trips from NJ to Lancaster County, PA I frequently pass through the sleepy little v|From Kirkus s|A wide-ranging, fascinating investigation by Slaughter (History/Rutgers) into the social and racial circumstances surrounding the Christiana Riot of 1851, in which runaway slaves stood up to the master who tracked them down and killed him. Sketchi

When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring them back. Two years later, Gorsuch lay dead outside the farmhouse in Christiana where he'd tracked them down, as his federal posse retreated pell-mell before the armed might of local blacks--and the impact of the most notorious act of resistance against the federal Fugitive Slave Law was about to be felt across a divided nation.
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