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Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Signed second edition of The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851 by William Ulher Hensel, published in 1911. (illustrator). Second Edition. Quarto, ix, 158pp. Beige cloth, title in black on paper label affixed to spine. Top edge gilt. This is the first revised edition, second released overall, issued in the same year of the 60th anniversary commemorative report of the Christiana Riot. Complete with 17 full-page plates with protective tissue guards, including frontispiece. Includes over 25 additional pages than the first issue, with five more illustrations. Solid text block, faint soiling to boards, front hinge loose. Previous ownership bookplate to front free endpaper. A near fine example. (Blockson 2591) Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Presented to B.Y. Junger by W.U. Hensel 2nd." An important piece with references to official trial reports, personal reminiscences, and interviews with the victim's families. The Christiana Riot of 1851 occurred when a group of African-Americans and white abolitionists defended four fugitive slaves from a Maryland posse seeking to recapture them. The confrontation resulted in the death of Edward Gorsuch, the slave owner, and injuries to several others. This event further divided pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States, already heightened by the restrictions of the recently passed Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Following the riot, 38 people were arrested and charged with treason under the Fugitive Slave Act, leading to a highly publicized trial. Castner Hanway, a local white miller, was the first to be tried and was acquitted, setting a precedent that led to the dismissal of charges against the other defendants. The Christiana Riot and trial were pivotal in galvanizing abolitionist sentiment and underscoring the deep divisions that would soon lead to the Civil War. Signed.

First Edition. [bound with:]The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of SirJohn Friend, Knight, for High Treason on Monday March 23.1695/6 London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and with:]The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of SirWilliam Parkins Knt who was found guilty of high-Treason, March 24.1695/6 London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and:]The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Ambrose Rookwood who upon full Evidence was found Guilty of High Treason on Tuesday the 21st of April, 1696 London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and:]The Arraignments, Tryals and Condemnations of Charles Cranburne, and Robert Lowick London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and:]The Arraignment, Confession and Condemnation of Alexander Knightley . London, Printed for Samuel Heyrick and Isaac Cleve. 1696. [and:]The Arraignment, Tryal and Condemnation of Peter Cooke, Gent.For High-Treason London, Printed for Benjamin Tooke 1696. Seven works in one vol., folio, pp.Charnock: [2], 76 (wanting the imprimatur leaf), Friend: [2], 44 (wanting the imprimatur leaf), Parkins: [2], 48 (wanting the imprimatur leaf), Rookwood: [4], 75, [1], Cranburne: [4], 72, Knightley: [4], 8 (with an initial blank), Cooke: [2], 71, [1] (wanting the imprimatur leaf); first named work frayed at the front, some browning, else good copies; bound together, spine very dry and worn, covers wanting; contemporary manuscript collective title-page laid in loose (torn); ownership inscriptions to first title-page 'J.F.Davenport 1778' and 'Franklin Davenport 1780' (seebelow).First editions of the trials of the Jacobite conspirators convicted in March and April1696 in connection with a plot to assassinate WilliamIII near Turnham Green in February that year, and to encourage a French invasion to restore JamesII to the throne. The main prosecution witness was George Porter, a violent former highway-robber fatally recruited to the cause, who betrayed his co-conspirators immediately after his arrest on 27February1696. The first three trials were rushed through just days before the Treason Trials Act (which allowed defendants counsel) came into force on 25 March 1696. 'The accused assassins Charnock and SirWilliam Parkyns defended themselves ably [though fruitlessly], but Friend, being ill-educated, unintelligent, and partly deaf, was helpless' (ODNB). Charnock, King, and Keyes were hanged, drawn, and quartered on 18March, Charnock leaving a last paper that admitted his guilt, and so harmed his fellow conspirators tried later. Friend and Parkyns were hanged at Tyburn on 3April1696. Ambrose Rookwood, namesake and great-grandson of the Gunpowder plotter, was tried on 21 April, and was the first conspirator to be allowed legal representation under the new Treason Trials Act; the account of the trial includes much procedural on the new legislation. He was executed along with Cranburn and Lowick on 29April1696. Alexander Knightley and Peter Cook were both found guilty but later pardoned after giving information. Provenance: 1. Josiah Franklin Davenport (b.1727) was the nephew of Benjamin Franklin (his mother was Franklin's older sister Sarah) and received much support from the Founding Father. Franklin's will of 1757 made Davenport contingent beneficiary of the income of his printing house and also made provision for Davenport's children. Franklin helped him set up a bakery in Philadelphia in 1749, but by 1759 he was secretary to the Pennsylvania Indian Commissioners, and then managed the trading post at Pittsburgh from 1761 to '65; he moved to New Jersey in around 1770 where his cousin, Governor William Franklin, helped him to the posts of justice of the peace and county clerk of Burlington and then Gloucester; he appears to have died in the same year as he signed this volume, as his wife opened a school in their house that year. 2. Franklin Davenport (17551832), the eldest son by Davenport's secon.