What was the “Christiana Riot”?

A) a response to the personal liberties laws
B) one example of the successful enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
C) one example of a group of free blacks who mobilized to protect fugitive slaves
D) the response of northern whites to the Fugitive Slave Act

Please help, which of these are true...

One member of the posse, landowner Edward Gorsuch, was killed and two others wounded during the fight. In the aftermath of the so-called Christiana Riot, 37 African Americans and one white man were arrested and charged with treason under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law. Most were acquitted.

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Answer:

C) one example of a group of free blacks who mobilized to protect fugitive slaves.

Explanation:

The Christiana Riot happened when and expedition of white people tried to re-capture some escaped slaves in the city of Christiana, Pennsylvania, which was a ressitance of free black men against the re-capture of 4 blacks that escaped slavery and after the congress passed a law where all escaped slaves should be returned to their owner and was a violent series of ressistance and eneded up on almost 40 people wounded or assasinated.