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Bloody dawn : the Christiana Riot and racial violence in the antebellum North

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3422
Author
Slaughter, Thomas P.
Date of Publication
1991.
Call Number
974.80323 S631
Responsibility
Thomas P. Slaughter.
ISBN
0195046331 :
Author
Slaughter, Thomas P.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1991.
Physical Description
xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-239) and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Chapters: THE ESCAPE // BLACK IMAGES IN WHITE MINDS // THE CHASE // THE RIOT // AFTERMATH // STRATAGEMS // THE TRIAL // RACE, VIOLENCE , AND LAW // RACE, RIOTS AND LAW // CONCLUSION
Summary
"This book tells the story of a riot that erupted on September 11, 1851 at Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and of the people whose lives were changed forever by that violent event. Shortly after dawn on that day, Lancaster's African-American community rose up in arms against attempted enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; and, in the course of saving four men from the federal posse charged to reenslave them, rioters killed the Maryland farmer who was trying to reclaim his human chattel." [from the introduction]
Subjects
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Violence - Pennsylvania - Christiana
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80323 S631
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Records of Christiana United Methodist Church (formerly a Methodist Episcopal Church) : also includes records of Gap and Mt. Pleasant Methodist Churches

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18002
Corporate Author
Christiana United Methodist Church (Christiana, Pa.)
Call Number
287 C555c
Corporate Author
Christiana United Methodist Church (Christiana, Pa.)
Place of Publication
Photocopies of the originals
Physical Description
v. ; 23-44 cm.
Notes
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County", page 57, #1 (Christiana), page 388, #4 (Gap), and page 383, #4B (Mt. Pleasant).
Contents
v. 1. (1874-1881) Probationers' records, class records, members in full connection, chronological record of official members, pastoral and statistical record, baptisms, and marriages -- v. 2. (1882-1929) Record of pastors, record of official members, record of members in full connection, record of probationers, records of marriages, and record of baptisms.-- v. 3. (1915-1939) Record of baptized children, records of preparatory membership, and record of full membership.-- v. 4 (c. 1944-1969) Full membership records.
Subjects
Christiana United Methodist Church (Christiana, Pa.)
Gap Methodist Church (Gap, Pa.)
Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church (Sadsbury Twp, Pa.)
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Gap
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Sadsbury Twp.
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Church records and registers - Pennsylvania - Gap.
Church records and registers. - Pennsylvania - Sadsbury Twp.
Sadsbury (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Genealogy
Location
Lancaster History Library - Church Record
Call Number
287 C555c
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Resistance at Christiana; the fugitive slave rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1851: a documentary account

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo5048
Author
Katz, Jonathan,
Date of Publication
[1974]
Call Number
974.80323 K18
ISBN
0690003072
Author
Katz, Jonathan,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Crowell
Date of Publication
[1974]
Physical Description
viii, 359 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
African American Resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.
Summary
The book details the events leading up to and following the " Christiana Riot " in 1851. African Americans in Christiana, Pennsylvania, repulsed the efforts of a Maryland slave owner to capture escaped slaves. The encounter resulted in the death of the slave owner and the trial for treason of several men. The charges were based on the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 which required citizens to assist in the return of escaped slaves to their owners. No one was convicted in the trial. The book states that "the Christiana resistance ranks with the Nat Turner uprising as one of the major episodes in black American history and the history of black-white relations. Along with John Brown's raid it was a harbinger of the Civil War. "
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Violence - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.
Christiana (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80323 K18
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Christiana Riot - Information file

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21547
Call Number
Information file - Christiana Riot
Summary
Information files are created for specific subjects that are associated with Lancaster County, e.g. "Rebman's scrap pile", "Ten-hour house". The files contain newspaper and magazine articles about the subject.
Subjects
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Information File
Call Number
Information file - Christiana Riot
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The Christiana Riot and the treason trials of 1851 : an historical sketch

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo7815
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1911
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
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Responsibility
by W. U. Hensel.
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1911
Physical Description
iii, 1-134 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 15, no. 8 [supplement]
Notes
Supplement to Lancaster County Historical Journal of October 1911
Subjects
United States.
Trials.
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Slavery - Pennsylvania.
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Fugitive slaves - Legal status, laws, etc. - Pennsylvania.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 15, number 8 [supplement] (1911), p. 1-134Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.15
Documents

vol15no8.5_supplement_pp1_134_ChristianaRiotTrials_.pdf

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Rebellion at Christiana

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2063
Author
Bacon, Margaret Hope.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
[1975]
Call Number
974.80323 B129
Responsibility
by Margaret Hope Bacon.
ISBN
0517515768 :
Author
Bacon, Margaret Hope.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Crown Publishers,
Date of Publication
[1975]
Physical Description
viii, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 207-209.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Summary
Relates the causes, events, and aftermath of the brief battle in 1851 between slave owners and escaped slaves led by William Parker.
Subjects
Parker, William. - Juvenile literature.
Parker, William.
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Christiana (Pa.) - History - History, Juvenile.
Christiana (Pa.) - History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80323 B129
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Abstracts of deaths, weddings, engagements, anniversaries and miscellaneous articles from the Christiana Ledger 1883 to 1888, 1899 to 1903

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2467
Date of Publication
n.d.
Call Number
310.5 CHRI S528
Responsibility
[compiled by] Waltanna Scott Shank.
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
n.d.
Physical Description
unpaged ; 29 cm.
Notes
"For the Lancaster County Historical Society".
Subjects
Christiana Ledger
Registers of births, etc. - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Weddings
Pennsylvania - Christiana - Genealogy
Christiana (Pa.) - History
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
310.5 CHRI S528
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Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Date of Publication
1979
presentations would be staged in Quarryville Memorial Park on a large old flat bed trailer, today's answer to the Conestoga wagon. When the Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, Inc, was ap- proached, it decided to portray the Christiana Riot of 1851 as its presentation. Your president and editor
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Responsibility
a play by John W.W. Loose.
Author
Loose, John Ward Willson.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1979
Physical Description
212-217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 83, no. 4
Subjects
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Historical drama - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Christiana (Pa.) - History.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 83, number 4 (1979), p. 212-217Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.83
Documents

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J. William Thorne's 1875 account of the Christiana Riot

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19260
Author
Thorne, J. Williams.
Date of Publication
2008].
Call Number
929 T511 DVD
Author
Thorne, J. Williams.
Place of Publication
[Gap, PA
Publisher
Nancy Plumley,
Date of Publication
2008].
Physical Description
1 videodisc ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Cover title.
Includes portraits of Thorne on the cover.
Summary
On September 11, 1851, at Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the African-American community rose up in arms against attempted enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. While attempting to save four men from the federal posse charged to re-enslave them, rioters killed the Maryland farmer who was trying to reclaim his "property."
Subjects
Thorne, J Williams.
Antislavery movements - United States
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Plumley, Nancy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Media
Call Number
929 T511 DVD
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But we have no country : the 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12760
Author
Forbes, Ella,
Date of Publication
1998.
Call Number
974.80323 F692e
Responsibility
by Ella Forbes.
ISBN
0965330818 (cloth : acidfree paper)
Author
Forbes, Ella,
Place of Publication
Cherry Hill, N.J
Publisher
Africana Homestead Legacy,
Date of Publication
1998.
Physical Description
xiv, 338 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-330) and index.
Summary
"But We Have No Country" examines how William Parker and the Christiana Resisters tested the basic tenets of American democracy and law, especially the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. In doing so, they exposed the contradiction between the theory of the American creed and the reality of the enslavement and oppression of black Americans. Ultimately the Christiana Resistance was a contest of wills between Parker and his self-defense organization, with natural law on their side, and Edward Grosuch and other white slave owners, armed, literally with civil law. Their struggle encapsulized the more immense battle of how to incorporate the institution of slavery in a so-called free society which was waging nationwide. It was a clash that Parker and the valiant Resisters won. [from Amazon.com]
Subjects
United States. - Fugitive slave law (1850)
Slave insurrections - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80323 F692e
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