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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Maddox, Lucy, author.     Subjects     Parker, Elizabeth, approximately 1841-     Parker, Rachel, 1834-1918.     United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Maddox, Lucy, author.       by title:      The Parker sisters :...         MARC Display

The Parker sisters : a border kidnapping / Lucy Maddox. by Maddox, Lucy, author. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2016. Subjects Parker, Elizabeth, approximately 1841-   Parker, Rachel, 1834-1918.   United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)   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. ISBN:  9781439913185 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 1439913188 (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  245 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm Contents:  The Line -- The Parkers' World -- Border Justice -- Elizabeth's Story -- Baltimore -- Legal Justice -- Freedom -- Afterwards -- Appendix. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.36209 Parker Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.36209 Parker Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.36209 Parker Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.36209 Ma Missing Inventory Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.36209 Parker Ma Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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