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The Christina Tragedy
12021-12-01T18:27:57+00:00Brian Robinson351175f8b63e375b96b75c26edde5534c94e816233plain2021-12-16T15:58:48+00:00unknown - From the book "The underground rail road", by William Still, Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1872, page 350. Taken from https://archive.org/details/undergroundrailr00stil/page/n391/mode/1up?q=christiana In 1851 a posse led by Edward Gorsuch and a federal marshal under the aegis of the Fugitive Slave act of 1850 attempted to recapture some escaped slaves who had take refuge in the house of William Parker near Christiana, Pennsylvania. William Parker and others resisted, killed Edward Gorsuch, and drove the rest of the posse off. This print is from the 1871 book "The Underground Rail Road" by William Still depicts the shooting and fleeing.Brian Robinson351175f8b63e375b96b75c26edde5534c94e8162