[PDF] Patty Cannon Administers Justice Or Joe Johnsons Last Kidnapping Exploit eBook

Author : Michael Morgan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,92 MB
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1625853416

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“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.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2144 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1927
Category : American drama
ISBN :

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Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)

Author : Carol Wilson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0813184525

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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.

Author : Arabelle Pennypacker
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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An annotated bibliography of fiction, history, and biography dealing with the Middle Atlantic states, i.e. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland.

Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Kidnapping
ISBN : 1438129882

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Presents a historical survey of kidnappings from biblical times to the present.