The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping by Lucy Maddox
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In this compact and engrossing story, Maddox uses the 1851 kidnappings of Elizabeth and Rachel Parker in Pennsylvania to demonstrate how antebellum slavery transcended state boundaries.... Maddox expertly contextualizes the Parker kidnappings, keeping her eye on the larger legal and political issues.... [She] dramatically renders the subsequent legal trials in thrilling detail, yet never loses sight of the kidnappings' historical importance in the deep divisions among Americans regarding slavery and abolition.-Publishers Weekly
Maddox relates a gripping narrative of two free African American girls in mid-19th-century Pennsylvania.... The use of primary sources such as diaries and newspapers enriches the account of the Parker girls, their kidnappings and entry into slavery via Baltimore and then New Orleans, as well as the resulting trials. VERDICT: This book should be read by all who have an interest in freedom and civil rights. There is much to learn about the history of slavery that is still being discovered by historians such as Maddox.-Library Journal (starred review)
About Lucy Maddox
Lucy Maddox is Professor Emerita of English and American Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs and Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Line
3. The Parkers' World
4. Border Justice
5. Elizabeth's Story
6. Baltimore
7. Legal Justice
8. Freedom
9. Afterwards
Appendix
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Additional information
CIN1439913188VG
9781439913185
1439913188
The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping by Lucy Maddox
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Temple University Press,U.S.
20160201
256
N/A
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