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The kidnapping of Rachel and Elizabeth Parker

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Author
Coates, Howard N.
Date of Publication
1928
. Approved—Apr. 13, 1852. Wm. Bigler. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Coates, Howard N. Title: The kidnapping of Rachel and Elizabeth Parker / by Howard N. Coates. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Parker, Elizabeth. Wesley, Rachel
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Responsibility
by Howard N. Coates.
Author
Coates, Howard N.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1928
Physical Description
31-39 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 32, no. 3 & 4
Subjects
Parker, Elizabeth.
Wesley, Rachel Parker.
Slavery - Maryland
Slavery - Pennsylvania
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 32, number 3/4 (1928), p. 31-39Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.32
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The Parker sisters : a border kidnapping

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Author
Maddox, Lucy,
Date of Publication
2016.
Call Number
306.362 M179
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Lucy Maddox.
ISBN
9781439913185 (cloth : alkaline paper)
1439913188 (cloth : alkaline paper)
Author
Maddox, Lucy,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia ; Rome ; Tokyo
Publisher
Temple University Press,
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
245 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index.
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.
Subjects
Parker, Elizabeth, - approximately 1841-
Parker, Rachel, - 1834-1918.
United States.
Free African Americans - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Biography.
African American girls - Pennsylvania - Chester County - Biography.
Kidnapping - Pennsylvania - Chester County
Borderlands - Pennsylvania
Slave trade - Maryland - Baltimore
Slave trade - Louisiana - New Orleans
Biographies.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
306.362 M179
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