- Collection
- Christiana Resistance Collection
- Title
- Christiana Resistance Collection
- Object ID
- CHRISTIANA RESISTANCE
- Date Range
- 1803-1971
, Pennsylvania. The
slaveholders crossed the state border, and attempted to claim and return the
slave fugitives as their property, under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
The violent confrontation resulted in the death of Edward Gorsuch, a slaveholder,
and the escape of William Parker to freedom in Canada