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Resistance at Christiana; the fugitive slave rebellion, Christiana, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1851: a documentary account

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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

The Christiana Riot and the treason trials of 1851 : an historical sketch

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Date of Publication: 1911

there is now general acquiescence in the result, the final decision was· not the prevailing doctrine of the people of the United States in 1851. Under the Constitution the Right to Reclaim the fugitive slave was no more unmistakable than the Duty to Return him. The Law of the Land gave to each State the

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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

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

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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

On the edge of freedom : the fugitive slave issue in south central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870

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Author: Smith, David G.

Edition: 1st ed.

Date of Publication: 2013.

Call Number: 326 S645

Responsibility: David G. Smith.

ISBN: 9780823240326 (cloth : alk. paper); 0823240320 (cloth : alk. paper)

Author: Smith, David G.

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Fordham University Press,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Physical Description: xiv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series: The North's Civil War

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction: The Fugitive Slave Issue on the Edge of Freedom -- South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- Thaddeus Stevens' Dilemma, Colonization, and the Turbulent Years of Early Antislavery in Adams County, 1835-39 -- Antislavery Petitioning in South Central Pennsylvania -- The Fugitive Slave Issue on Trial : The 1840s in South Central Pennsylvania -- Controversy and Christiana : The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1850-51 -- Interlude: Kidnapping, Kansas, and the Rise of Race-Based Partisanship : The decline of the Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1852-57 -- Revival of the Fugitive Slave Issue, 1858-61 -- Contrabands, "White Victories," and the Ultimate Slave Hunt : Recasting the Fugitive Slave Issue in Civil War South Central Pennsylvania -- After the Shooting : South Central Pennsylvania after the Civil War -- Conclusion: The Postwar Ramifications of the Fugitive Slave Issue "On the Edge of Freedom" -- Appendix A: Selected Fugitive Slave Advertisements, 1818-28 -- Appendix B: 1828 South Central Pennsylvania Petition Opposing Slavery in the District of Columbia -- Appendix C: 1847 Gettysburg African American Petition -- Appendix D: 1846 Adams County Petition -- Appendix E: 1861 Franklin County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix F: 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix G: [Second] 1861 Adams County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix H: 1861 Doylestown, Bucks County Pro-Colonization Petition -- Appendix I: 1861 Newtown, Bucks County Pro-Personal Liberty Law Petition.

Subjects: Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania; Abolitionists - Pennsylvania; Underground Railroad - Pennsylvania.; Borderlands - Pennsylvania; Abolitionists.; African Americans.; Antislavery movements.; Borderlands.; Fugitive slaves.; Fugitive slaves; Race relations.; Underground Railroad.; Pennsylvania - Race relations - History - 19th century.; Pennsylvania.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 S645

The Christiana riot and the treason trials of 1851 : an historical sketch

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Author: Hensel, W. U.

Edition: 2nd and rev. ed.

Date of Publication: 1911.

Call Number: 974.80323

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Responsibility: by W.U. Hensel ; With some account of the commemoration of these events, September 9, 1911.

Author: Hensel, W. U.

Edition: 2nd and rev. ed.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Press of the New Era Print. Co.,

Date of Publication: 1911.

Physical Description: ix, 158 p. : ill., facsim., ports. ; 29 cm.

Subjects: United States.; Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.; Trials (Treason) - Pennsylvania.; Fugitive slaves - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.80323

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Report of the trial of Castner Hanway for treason, in the resistance of the execution of the Fugitive slave law of September 1850. Before Judges Grier and Kane, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Held at Philadelphia in November and December, 1851. To which is added an Appendix, containing the laws of the United States on the subject of fugitives from labor, the charges of Judge Kane to the grand juries in relation thereto, and a statement of the points of law decided by the court during the trial

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Author: Hanway, Castner,

Date of Publication: 1852.

Call Number: 974.8032 R634

Responsibility: By James J. Robbins. From the notes of Arthur Cannon and Samuel B. Dalrymple, phonograpic reporters appointed by the court for this case.

Author: Hanway, Castner,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: King & Baird,

Date of Publication: 1852.

Physical Description: 2 p.l., 9-275 p. 23 cm.

Notes: The charge was in connection with an attempt to arrest Noah Buley, Nelson Ford, Joshua Hammond, and George Hammond on a warrant issued under the Fugitive slave law, claiming them as slaves of Edward Gorsuch of Maryland.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Buley, Noah.; Fugitive slave law of 1850.

Additional Author: Robbins, James J.; Cannon, Arthur.; Dalrymple, Samuel B.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 974.8032 R634

Christiana Riot - Information file

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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

The Christiana Riot, 1851

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Author: Douglass, Hugh.

Call Number: 905.748 OAHS v. 3, no. 11

Author: Douglass, Hugh.

Notes: In: Octorara Area Historical Society, v. 3, no.11, (not dated).

Subjects: Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana.; Christiana, Pa. - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 OAHS v. 3, no. 11

Prigg v. Pennsylvania : slavery, the Supreme Court, and the ambivalent constitution

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Author: Baker, H. Robert.

Call Number: 342.73 B167

Responsibility: H. Robert Baker.

ISBN: 9780700618644 (cloth : alk. paper); 0700618643 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780700618651 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0700618651 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Author: Baker, H. Robert.

Place of Publication: [Lawrence]

Publisher: University Press of Kansas,

Physical Description: xii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.

Series: Landmark law cases & American society

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index.

Contents: A short history of fugitives in America and an African named James Somerset -- The original meaning of the fugitive slave clause -- The Fugitive Slave Act, kidnapping, and the powers of dual sovereigns -- The rights of slaveholders and those of free Blacks in Pennsylvania's Personal Liberty Law of 1826 -- Black sailors, kidnapped freemen, and a crisis in northern fugitive slave jurisprudence -- Arresting Margaret -- Arresting Edward Prigg -- Before the court -- Deciding Prigg -- After the court.

Summary: Margaret Morgan was born in freedom's shadow. Her parents were slaves of John Ashmore, a prosperous Maryland mill owner who freed many of his slaves in the last years of his life. Ashmore never laid claim to Margaret, who eventually married a free black man and moved to Pennsylvania. Then, John Ashmore's widow sent Edward Prigg to Pennsylvania to claim Margaret as a runaway. Prigg seized Margaret and her children, one of them born in Pennsylvania and forcibly removed them to Maryland in violation of Pennsylvania law. In the ensuing uproar, Prigg was indicted for kidnapping under Pennsylvania's personal liberty law. Maryland, however, blocked his extradition, setting the stage for a remarkable Supreme Court case in 1842.

Subjects: Prigg, Edward - Trials, litigation, etc.; Prigg, Edward.; Pennsylvania - Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. - Supreme Court.; Fugitive slaves - United States.; Fugitive slaves; Trials.; Pennsylvania.; United States.; Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 342.73 B167

Making freedom : the Underground Railroad and the politics of slavery

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Author: Blackett, R. J. M.,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Call Number: 973.7115 B628

Responsibility: R.J.M. Blackett.

ISBN: 9781469608778; 1469608774

Author: Blackett, R. J. M.,

Place of Publication: Chapel Hill

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press,

Date of Publication: 2013.

Physical Description: xii, 122 pages ; 24 cm.

Series: The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-116) and index.

Contents: Making their way to freedom -- The workings of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law -- Taking leave: fugitive slaves and the politics of slavery -- Conclusion: Counternarratives.

Summary: The 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which mandated action to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves and denied fugitives legal rights if they were apprehended, quickly became a focal point in the debate over the future of slavery and the nature of the union. In Making Freedom, R. J. M. Blackett uses the experiences of escaped slaves and those who aided them to explore the inner workings of the Underground Railroad and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, while shedding light on the political effects of slave escape in southern states, border states, and the North. Blackett highlights the lives of those who escaped, the impact of the fugitive slave cases, and the extent to which slaves planning to escape were aided by free blacks, fellow slaves, and outsiders who went south to entice them to escape. Using these stories of particular individuals, moments, and communities, Blackett shows how slave flight shaped national politics as the South witnessed slavery beginning to collapse and the North experienced a threat to its freedom. [from the publisher]

Subjects: United States.; Fugitive slaves - United States.; Underground Railroad.; Slavery - United States; Fugitive slaves.; Fugitive slaves; Politics and government; Slavery; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.; History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7115 B628

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