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"The Tragedy at Christiana," Christiana, PA, September 11, 1851.
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African-Americans firing on slave-catchers at the home of William Parker, near Christiana, Pa., 11 Sept. 1851; slave-hunters Edward Gorsuch and his son Dickerson, of Baltimore Co., Md., were killed and wounded.

Credit: William Still, The Underground Railroad (Philadelphia: Porter & Coats, 1872), 351.

This imaginative recreation of the Christiana Riot appeared in the first edition of William Still's The Underground Railroad, published in 1872.

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