Patty Cannon Administers Justice
Title | Patty Cannon Administers Justice PDF eBook |
Author | R. W. Messenger |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Patty Cannon Administers Justice, Or, Joe Johnson's Last Kidnapping Exploit
Title | Patty Cannon Administers Justice, Or, Joe Johnson's Last Kidnapping Exploit PDF eBook |
Author | R. W. Messenger |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Title | Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | 2144 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN |
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)
Delmarva's Patty Cannon
Title | Delmarva's Patty Cannon PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Morgan |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2019-04-22 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1625853416 |
“Details the brazen robberies, shameless kidnappings and heartless murders committed by Delmarva’s legendary criminal.”—Cape Gazette Truth lies behind the grim legend of Patty Cannon. In the early nineteenth century, Patty and her gang terrorized the Delmarva Peninsula, kidnapping free African American men, women and children. Using surprise and treachery, Cannon even employed a free African American accomplice to lure her unsuspecting prey. Captives who survived confinement in Patty’s cells were sold south. The position of the Cannon home on the shadowy border between Delaware and Maryland allowed her to dodge the law until a local farmer unearthed the remains of her victims in 1829. Patty mysteriously died in jail awaiting trial. Author Michael Morgan investigates the chilling history of one of the nation’s first serial killers.
Freedom at Risk
Title | Freedom at Risk PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Wilson |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | 211 |
Release | 2021-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813184525 |
Kidnapping was perhaps the greatest fear of free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Though they may have descended from generations of free-born people or worked to purchase their freedom, free blacks were not able to enjoy the privileges and opportunities of white Americans. They lived with the constant threat of kidnapping and enslavement, against which they had little recourse. Most kidnapped free blacks were forcibly abducted, but other methods, such as luring victims with job offers or falsely claiming free people as fugitive slaves, were used as well. Kidnapping of blacks was actually facilitated by numerous state laws, as well as the federal fugitive slave laws of 1793 and 1850. Greed motivated kidnappers, who were assured high profits on the sale of their victims. As the internal slave trade increased in the early nineteenth century, so did kidnapping. If greed provided the motivation for the crime, racism helped it to continue unabated. Victims usually found it extremely difficult to regain their freedom through a legal system that reflected society's racist views, perpetuated a racial double standard, and considered all blacks slaves until proven otherwise. Fortunate was the victim who received assistance, sometimes from government officials, most often from abolitionists. Frequently, however, the black community was forced to protect its own and organized to do so, sometimes by working within the law, sometimes by meeting violence with violence. Mining newspaper accounts, memoirs, slave narratives, court records, letters, abolitionist society minutes, and government documents, Carol Wilson has provided a needed addition to our picture of free black life in the United States.
The Publishers Weekly
Title | The Publishers Weekly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1036 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
The Middle Atlantic
Title | The Middle Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Arabelle Pennypacker |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
An annotated bibliography of fiction, history, and biography dealing with the Middle Atlantic states, i.e. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland.