/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: Aftermath supplementary to Christiana Riot, 1851 / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Slavery--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society

. (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

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

slaves escaped, has �4 THE CHRISTIANA RIOT. given me much accurate information as to their previous condition of servitude. If their contribution to the history of the encounter and the events preceding it presents, the relation of the Southern­ ers to it in a far more favorable light than has hitherto

Parker's presence the Negroes would have lacked the courage to stand up to the slavecatchers, and the Christiana Riot would not have occurred.? Many white residents of Lancaster County made no secret of their disapproval of the recent law respecting fugitive slaves. On October 11, 1850, at a meeting in the

Pennsylvania and settled in Lancas- ter County near Christiana. According to Pete Woods, a Negro leader in the Christiana area, the fugitive slaves arrived in the area in late December, 1849. When the /our Negroes reached the area, they were known to be escaped slaves and a Negro organization for the

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