The Christiana Riot: its Causes and Effects from a Southern Standpoint [within:] Papers Read before the Lancaster County Historical Society, June 30, 1901.

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A special supplementary issue, the entirety of it is devoted to Magee’s article on the Christiana Riot, an event of African American-led armed resistance which took place in 1851 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just over the Mason-Dixon line, in reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Description: The Christiana Riot: its Causes and Effects from a Southern Standpoint [within:] Papers Read before the Lancaster County Historical Society, June 30, 1901.

Lancaster: Lancaster County Historical Society, 1911. Octavo. Pagination: 193–210. Original printed wrappers. Light wear to covers; owner’s embossed blindstamp to title-page; very good.

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Price: $35.00

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