Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North by Thomas P. Slaughter

Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North

Thomas P. Slaughter

272 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark sad slow-paced
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When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring them back. Two years later, Gorsuch lay dead outside the farmhouse in Christiana where he'd tracked them down, as his ...

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