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In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free dark child in Chester Region, Pennsylvania, was destined and gagged, snatched from an area farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Fourteen days later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester Region farm. Because slave catchers could take fugitive slaves and free blacks across state lines to be sold, the boundary country of Pennsylvania/Maryland had turn into a dangerous place for most dark people. In The Parker Sisters, Lucy Maddox offers an eloquent, urgent account of the tragic kidnapping of these young women. Using archival media and courtroom reviews, Maddox tells the larger story of the devastating aftereffect of the Fugitive Slave Act on the tiny farming neighborhoods of Chester Region and the significant, widening outcomes for the state of hawaii and the country. The Parker Sisters is also a story about individuals whose lives and fates were deeply inlayed in both the daily rounds of the community and the madness and assault consuming all of antebellum America. Maddox's account of this horrific and startling criminal offense reveals the strength and vulnerability of the Parker sisters and the BLACK population. The publication is publicized by Temple University Press.
