Biography
Joseph Scarlett was a Defendant in the federal treason prosecution following the September 11, 1851 Christiana Resistance — an armed defense by free Black and formerly-enslaved residents of Christiana, Pennsylvania against slave-catcher Edward Gorsuch, who was killed in the confrontation. The Fillmore administration charged 38 men with treason in what was then the largest federal treason prosecution in U.S. history. White Quaker neighbor of the Black community who refused to help the marshal. Outcome: charges dropped.
