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Author Maddox, Lucy.

Title The Parker sisters : a border kidnapping / Lucy Maddox.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  306.362 MAD    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  306.36 MADDOX    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  306.362 MAD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.36 MADDOX    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  306.362 MAD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  306.362 MA    Check Shelf
Description 245 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [211]-239) and index.
Contents The Line -- The Parkers' World -- Border Justice -- Elizabeth's Story -- Baltimore -- Legal Justice -- Freedom -- Afterwards -- Appendix.
Summary The remarkable story of an 1850s kidnapping of two free black girls in rural Pennsylvania after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century.
Subject African American girls -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- Biography.
Kidnapping -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History -- 19th century.
Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- Biography.
Borderlands -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century.
Parker, Rachel, 1834-1918.
Slave trade -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
Parker, Elizabeth, approximately 1841-
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Slave trade -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century.
Local Subject Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
Subject United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
ISBN 9781439913185 (cloth ;) (alkaline paper)
1439913188 (cloth ;) (alkaline paper)
9781439913208 (e-book)
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