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Patty Cannon, woman of mystery

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11219
Author
Giles, Ted.
Date of Publication
[c1965]
Call Number
326 G472
Responsibility
Illustrated by John Moll.
Author
Giles, Ted.
Place of Publication
Easton, Md
Publisher
Easton
Date of Publication
[c1965]
Physical Description
95 p. illus.
Summary
"An attempt to sort the known facts from the many wild legends surrounding this notorious criminal of the Eastern Shore (of Maryland). Patty Cannon and her gang kidnapped free Negroes and sold them into slavery and apparently committed several vicious murders in early 19th Maryland and Delaware before she committed suicide in the jail at Georgetown, Delaware, in 1821" [Amazon.com]
Subjects
Slavery - Maryland.
Slavery - Delaware.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 G472
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