- Collection
- Christiana Resistance Collection
- Title
- Christiana Resistance Collection
- Object ID
- CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE
- Date Range
- 1803-1971
to as
the “Christiana Riot” occurred in September of 1851 in Christiana, Pennsylvania,
a borough in Lancaster County. The events known as the Christiana Resistance
include an attack from slaveholders in Maryland on the inhabitants and home of
William Parker (1822), a free black living in Christiana