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Title The Parker sisters : a border kidnapping / Lucy Maddox.
Author Maddox, Lucy, author.
Publication Info. Philadelphia ; Rome ; Tokyo : Temple University Press, 2016.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  306.362 MAD    Check Shelves
Description 245 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography 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.
Subject Parker, Elizabeth, approximately 1841-
Parker, Rachel, 1834-1918.
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.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850).
Slave trade -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 19th century.
Slave trade -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9781439913185 (cloth : alkaline paper) : $28.50