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

life to the protection of the Negroes' rights and in the Christiana riot he "saw his greatest moment as a defender of the rights of his race." 6 In the early 1840's Parker began to hear of the aboli- tionist movement in Lancaster County. While in Lancaster one day he heard �the speeches of William

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

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

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