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Black residents and abolitionists resist slave catchers at Christiana

📅 11 September 1851

Black residents of Christiana resisted an armed attempt to seize freedom seekers under the Fugitive Slave Act; slaveholder Edward Gorsuch was killed in the confrontation. Federal authorities...