"In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could take fu... Full description
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Parker, Elizabeth, > approximately 1841-
United States. > Fugitive slave law (1850)
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.
Slave trade > Maryland > Baltimore > History > 19th century.
Slave trade > Louisiana > New Orleans > History > 19th century.