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"The Christiana Tragedy", an 1872 depiction of the shooting of Edward Gorsuch. [1]The Christiana Riot, also known as Christiana Resistance, Christiana Tragedy, or Christiana incident, was the successful armed resistance by free Blacks and escaped slaves to a raid led by a federal marshal to recover four escaped slaves owned by Edward Gorsuch of Maryland.
Forbes, David, A True Story of the Christiana Riot, The Sun Printing House, 1898; Whitson, Thomas, "William Parker, The Hero of the Christiana Riot", Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. 1, No. 1; Gwendolyn Robinson and John W. Robinson, Seek the Truth – A Story of Chatham's Black Community, 1989 [ISBN missing]
Christiana is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,100 at the time of the 2020 census. [3] In 1851, it was the site of the Battle of Christiana, also called the Christiana riot.
Upon finding some of his wheat missing, he thought his slaves had sold it to a local farmer. His slaves Noah Buley, Nelson Ford, George Ford, and Joshua Hammond, fearing his bad temper, fled across the Mason–Dixon line to the farm of William Parker, a mulatto free man and abolitionist who lived in Christiana, Pennsylvania. Parker, 29, was a ...
Burr served on its Vigilance Committee to directly aid fugitive slaves. Together with other members of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, Burr helped raise money for the defense of men indicted for treason in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, for what was then called the Christiana Riot of 1851, now known as the Christiana Resistance.
The defendants had been implicated in the so-called Christiana Riot: an attempt to enforce a Fugitive Slave Act warrant had resulted in the killing of the slaveowner. Justice Robert Grier of the U.S. Supreme Court, as circuit justice , tried the case, and instructed the jury to acquit because though the defendants might be guilty of murder or ...
Kerry Washington portrays Lt. Col. Charity Adams in the Netflix film. The real-life leader was born in Kittrell, N.C., on Dec. 5, 1918, and raised in Columbia, S.C.
Over three decades, Moore aided more than 600 freedom seekers, including Christiana Riot participant William Parker, to escape north to freedom. Moore moved to Quakertown in 1813 and ran a pottery there from 1834 until his death. He also taught large numbers of impoverished children as part of the Richland Friends School.