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What Happened in Christiana,Pennsylvania,in 1851

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What happened in Christiana,Pennsylvania,in 1851?


A) Abolitionist Theodore Parker defied the Fugitive Slave Act by helping two slaves escape to freedom.
B) About twenty African Americans fought a gun battle with slave catchers,killing two;a jury subsequently acquitted one defendant,and the government dropped charges against the rest.
C) Rioters marched into a courthouse,forced their way into the courtroom,and freed a fugitive slave facing trial.
D) Frederick Douglass declared that "the only way to make a Fugitive Slave Law a dead letter is to make a half dozen or more dead kidnappers."

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