The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North
by
Thomas P. Slaughter
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1994
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...