02061cam a2200265 4500 531391264 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781439913208 143991320X B0191ZJ4WY Amazon 3d5c8d9b-e52d-4984-90b6-d839286b92ca OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2550847 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Maddox, Lucy. The Parker Sisters [Libby eBook] : A Border Kidnapping. Temple University Press, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 8MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>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.</p> <p>In <i>The Parker Sisters,</i> 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.</p> <p><i>The Parker Sisters</i> 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.</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22.