Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, and Cecil, Harford and Baltimore Counties·, Maryland, were much intensified. Mason and Dixon line was the imaginary demarcation between two wholly antagonistic social and po- �8 THE CHRISTIANA RIOT. litical orders. The same person might be a Maryland slave under Maryland

henceforth shall be free." The slave population, according to the census of 1790, in Pennsylvania, was 3,417. Slavery was deemed as inconsistent with the principles of free govern- ment and many declared slave-holding a sin against God and a crime against humanity. Slave Children Born in Lancaster County

Ledger on Sep- tember 12, 1851, has a paragraph on the murder at Christiana under the �headlng of "Local Affairs." On the 13th, under the same heading, there is a trifle less than a half column on "The Lancaster County Riot and Mur- der," and a brief editorial entitled "Fruits of the Higher Law." An edi

from 1803 to 1807 and 1807 to 1811 respectively / by Miss Adeline B. Spindler. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Whitehill, John, 1729-1805. Jenkins, Robert, 1769-1848. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History. Legislators--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa