Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North

A compelling analysis of racial violence in pre-Civil War America as seen through the prism of the September 1851 riot in Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania....Slaughter...is a very good storyteller....He neatly weaves together the threads of local, regional, and national crises to offer a persuasive account of the importance of the Christiana Riot in the coming Civil War...An eloquent and insightful story that is respectful of the past, yet speaks to our present concerns with clarity and conviction.