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Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North (Reprint Edition) by Thomas P. Slaughter Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-19-504634-X / 019504634X ISBN-13: 978-0-19-504634-2 / 9780195046342 When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring them back. Two years later, Gorsuch lay dead outside the farmhouse in Christiana where he'd tracked them down, as his federal posse retreated pell-mell before the armed m |