Title The Parker sisters : a border kidnapping / Lucy Maddox

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents The Line -- The Parkers' World -- Border Justice -- Elizabeth's Story -- Baltimore -- Legal Justice -- Freedom -- Afterwards -- Appendix Summary "In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could take fugitive slaves and free blacks across state lines to be sold, the border country of Pennsylvania/Maryland had become a dangerous place for most black people. In The Parker Sisters, Lucy Maddox gives an eloquent, urgent account of the tragic kidnapping of these young women. Using archival news and courtroom reports, Maddox tells the larger story of the disastrous effect of the Fugitive Slave Act on the small farming communities of Chester County and the significant, widening consequences for the state and the nation. The Parker Sisters is also a story about families whose lives and fates were deeply embedded in both the daily rounds of their community and the madness and violence consuming all of antebellum America. Maddox's account of this horrific and startling crime reveals the strength and vulnerability of the Parker sisters and the African American population, "--Amazon.com Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Parker, Elizabeth, approximately 1841- Parker, Rachel, 1834-1918. SUBJECT Parker, Elizabeth, approximately 1841- fast Parker, Rachel, 1834-1918 fast Subject United States. Fugitive slave law (1850) SUBJECT Fugitive slave law (United States : 1850) fast Subject Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- Biography African American girls -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- Biography Kidnapping -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History -- 19th century Borderlands -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century Slave trade -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century Slave trade -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. HISTORY -- General. African American girls Free African Americans Kidnapping Slave trade Louisiana -- New Orleans Maryland -- Baltimore Pennsylvania Pennsylvania -- Chester County Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781439913208 143991320X

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