Comprehensive Bibliography

Tom's Bibliography

Finkelman, Paul. "The Kidnapping of John Davis and the Adoption of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793." The Journal of Southern History 56 (1990): 397-422.

Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr. In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

May, Samuel. The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims. 1861. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970.

McDougall, Marion Gleason. Fugitive Slaves: 1619-1865. 1891. New York: Bergman Publishers, 1967.

Nash, Gary B. and Jean R. Soderlund. Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Pease, Jane H. and William H. Pease. "Confrontation and Abolition in the 1850s." Journal of American History 58 (1972): 923-37.

Pease, Jane H. and William H. Pease. The Fugitive Slave Law and Anthony Burns: A Problem in Law Enforcement. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1975.

Slaughter, Thomas P. Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Currently Unreviewed

Beeman, Richard, Stephen Boorstein, and Edward C. Carter, II, eds. Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Chase, Salmon Portland. Reclamation of Fugitives from Service: An Argument for the Defendant, Submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, at the December Term, 1846, in the case of Wharton Hones vs. John Vanzandt. 1847. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.

Meaders, Daniel. Dead or Alive: Fugitives and White Indentured Servants Before 1830. Studies in African American History and Culture. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993.

Nash, Gary. Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840. Cambridge, MA:????, 1988.

Rossbach, Jeffery. Ambivalent Conspirators: John Brown, The Secret Six, and a Theory of Slave Violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982.

Stampp, Kenneth M. The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963.

Stevens, Charles Emery. Anthony Burns: A History. 1856. New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969.

Walters, Ronald G. The Anti-Slavery Appeal: American Abolitionism After 1830. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976.

Pennsylvania Freeman

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Kevin's Bibliography

Forbes, David. A True Story of the Christiana Riot. Quarryville, PA: The Sun Printing House, 1898.

Grau, Richard. “The Christiana Riot of 1851." Lancaster County Historical Society Journal. 68 (1964):147-175.

Hensel, William. “The Aftermath supplementary to Christiana Riot.” Lancaster County Historical Society Journal. 16 (1896):133-141.

Hensel, William. “An Interesting Paper.” Lancaster County Historical Society Journal. 1 (1896): 114-116.

Hostetter, Albert. “The Newspaper and Christiana Riot”. Lancaster County Historical Society Journal. 15 (1911): 296-309.

Magee, Daniel. “The Christiana Riot: Causes and Effects in America”. Lancaster County Historical Society Journal. 15 (1911): 193-208.

Parker, William. “The Freedman's Story” The Atlantic Monthly. 19 (1866): 153-295.

Slaughter, Thomas. Bloody Dawn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Whitson, Thomas. “William Parker the Hero

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Jay's Sources and Bibliography

“Christiana Riot” on file at the Lancaster County Historical Society

Forbes, David R. “A True Story of the Christiana Riot” Quarryville: The Sun Printing House, 1898

Forbes, Ella M. “But We Have No Country: an Afrocentric Study of the 1851 Christiana Resistance” Temple University Thesis (Ph.D.), 1992

Hansel, W. U. “The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch, Chapter VIII The Political Aftermath” Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. XV, Lancaster: New Era Printing Co., 1911, pages 46-54

Hostetter, A. K. “The Newspapers and the Christiana Riot” Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. XV, Lancaster: New Era Printing Co., 1911, pages 296-308

Magee, D. F. “The Christiana Riot: Its Causes and Effects, from a Southern Standpoint,” Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. XV, Lancaster: New Era Printing Co., 1911, pages 193-209

Michaelmas. “The Reaction to the Christiana Tragedy,” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 68, Lancaster: New Era Printing Co., 1964, pages 164-168

Nash, Roderick. “The Christiana Riot: An Evaluation of Its National Significance” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 65, Lancaster: New Era Printing Co., 1965, pages 65-91

Parker, William. “The Freedman's Story” Atlantic Monthly, vol. XVII, February and March 1866, Part 1 &endash; pages 152-167, Part 2 &endash; pages 270-295

Whitson, Thomas. “William Parker, The Hero of the Christiana Riot,” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 1, no. 1, Lancaster: New Era Printing Co., pages 27-34

Slaughter. Thomas P. “BLoody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North” Pages 112 - 138, Oxford University Press 1991

Grau, Richard. “The Christians Riot of 1851: A Reappraisal”, Journal of Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol 68 1964, pages 147 - 175

Nash, Roderick. “The Christiana Riot: An Evaluation of Its National Significance” Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol 65 Pages 55 - 99 Spring 1961.

Hensel, W. U. “The Christians Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch” Lancaster County Historical Society Journal, Vol XV, pages 55 - 99 September 9, 1911.

Forbes, David R. “ A True Story of the Christiana Riot” Quarryville: The Sun Printing House, 1898

Katz, Jonathan. : Resistance at Christiana: The Fugitive Slave Rebellion, Christina, Pennsylvania” September 11, 1851, Thomas Cromwell Co. New York, 1974

Robbins, James J. : "Report on the Trial of Castner Hanway for Treason", Philadelphia, 1852, Negro University Press WestPort Connecticut