But We Have No Country: The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance by Ella Forbes

But We Have No Country: The 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance

Ella Forbes

352 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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"But We Have No Country" examines how William Parker and the Christiana Resisters tested the basic tenets of American democracy and law, especially the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. In doing so, they exposed the contradiction between the theory of the ...

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