Maryland slaveholder Edward Gorsuch arrives in Philadelphia seeking warrants to obtain his four runaway slaves who have been discovered living near Christiana, Pennsylvania. (By Matthew Pinsker)
Source Citation
Thomas P. Slaughter, Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 52.
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