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

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

Christiana Riot / by Thomas Whitson, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Parker, William. Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Christiana (Pa.)--History. Christiana (Pa.)--Race relations. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [27]-34 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: Coroner's verdict in the Christiana Riot case : an interesting paper / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Gorsuch, Edward. Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Christiana (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97

The Christiana Riot of 1851: A Reappraisal Richard Grau THE MASON-DIXON LINE BECOMES PRONOUNCED The Christiana Riot of September, 1851 epitomized the conflicting in- stitutions which were already threatening the unity of the nation. The tragedy in Christiana, Pennsylvania was an outgrowth of the

bolted back toward the house. His shouts of "Kid- nappers! Kidnappers!" awakened the sleeping residents of the valley. Thus began, a little more than two miles from the village of Chris- tiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the Christiana Riot. It resulted in violent death for one of the seven whites

legal it may have been, technically, was evidently no more pleasant than it was profitable and popular. It seems that the party who accompanied Edward Gorsuch to Christiana—some of whom retreated rather ingloriously—were not animat- ed wholly by a spirit of philanthropy and patriotism. Thrift was their

A History of Brewing in Lancaster County, Legal and Otherwise Charles O. Lynch and ]ohn Ward Willson Loose PREFACE Leaning against the doorway of his brewery for a moment of relaxation after carrying many pails of water from the nearby spring, Henry Dering let the cold, clear water of the stream

. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Other Author(s): Cassel, Abraham Harley, 1820-1908. Title: An anti-slavery reminiscence / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): United States. Fugitive slave law (1850) Trials. Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical