The Christiana Resistance (1851)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

It’s September 15th. This day in 1851, a dramatic showdown takes place in Christiana, Pennsylvania over four fugitive enslaved people who were hiding in a farmhouse near the Maryland border.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the details of the showdown and how the incident at Christiana ratcheted tensions in the run-up to the Civil War.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:11.0	This day, September 15, 1851 in Christiana, Pennsylvania, a group of African Americans and
0:17.6	white abolitionists fight with a Maryland posse intent on capturing four fugitive enslaved people who were being hidden in that town.
0:27.1	This all took place on the Parker Farm, the home of abolitionists Eliza and William Parker,
0:32.0	who were attempting to provide refuge for these four people.
0:36.0	And all this took place in the context of the Fugitive Slave Act and the sort of no-man's land
0:41.4	interesting territory on the Maryland
0:43.0	Pennsylvania border where north and south were blurred and
0:45.8	contested in a sense. There's lots of interesting wrinkles here not to mention
0:50.3	a really interesting legacy given the outcome of this incident and the subsequent
0:54.9	trial. Lots of people point to the Christiana resistance as a turning point of sorts in
1:00.0	the run-up to the Civil War. So here to discuss it as always are
1:04.4	Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.
1:07.7	Hello there.
1:08.7	Hello Jody. Hey there.
1:11.1	Okay last episode was sort of right in My and Nicky's Wheelhouse, GOP foolishness and Republican
1:18.3	Democratic apps.
1:19.7	We're now headed right towards Kelly's wheelhouse.
1:24.0	Yeah, can I ask you before we get into details actually can I ask you that big?
1:28.0	We usually like to start small but I want to ask you that big question that I hinted at in the intro Like, do people see this as a real kind of key pivotal moment
1:36.2	in the run up to the war?
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