FORBES, DAVID R. A True Story of the Christiana Riot. Illustrated from engravings. 8vo, original cloth with gilt title on front cover. Quarryville, Pennsylvania: Sun Printing House, 1898 E350/500 FIRST EDITION. Story of the fugitive slave rebellion

FORBES, DAVID R. A True Story of the Christiana Riot. Illustrated from engravings. 8vo, original cloth with gilt title on front cover. Quarryville, Pennsylvania: Sun Printing House, 1898 E350/500 FIRST EDITION. Story of the fugitive slave rebellion at Christiana, Pennsylvania. When a white slave owner attempted to remove a runaway slave, he met armed and unified resistance led by ex-slave William Parker. The general (white) press referred to the incident as "The Christiana Riots"; Frederick Douglass described it as "the battle for liberty at Christiana." Not mentioned by Aptheker; not in Schomburg Collection; Blockson Collection 4238.