Black Minqua The Life and Times of Henry Green

This is an announcement of the release of my third book, Black Minqua: The Life and Times of Henry Green. The importance of this book is to highlight an event that took place on September 11, 1851, fully 150 years before 9/11. The event was called, The Riot At Christiana, or "The Christiana Resistance". Henry Green was one of the men arrested and tried for Treason. The arrest of Henry and thirty-eight other, (mostly African American), men was for the murder of a slave owner Edward Gorsuch. The event took place a year after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed into law. The Community in Lancaster County Pennsylvania were staunchly Anti-Slavery and one of the hubs of the Underground Railroad. On that fateful day, Henry Green's life changed forever. Prior to the incident the men of the community heard Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison speak and met with them.

The setting of the book begins in the early 1800's with Henry's father, Benjamin, a veteran of the War of 1812. The title Black Minqua is a reference to Natives who resided along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. On first contact whites termed Natives, Minqua or Mingo (People of the Muddy River), and according to their skin tone, black or white. Henry was a descendant of those Natives, Free Blacks, and whites. This book is a tribute to Henry and the community he loved.