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Patty Cannon, whose birth name may have been Lucretia Patricia Hanly (c. 1759/1760 or 1769 – May 11, 1829), was an illegal slave trader, serial killer, and the co-leader of the multi-racial Cannon–Johnson Gang of Maryland–Delaware.
From 1811 to 1829, Martha "Patty" Cannon was the leader of a gang that kidnapped slaves and free blacks, from the Delmarva Peninsula of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Chesapeake Bay and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.
An 1800s illustration depicted Patty Cannon of Sussex County, of whom no historic images exist, killing one of two or three children she was accused of murdering, along with a white slave trader.
Patty Cannon (c. 1760 or 1759 or 1769 – May 11, 1829) was an illegal slave trader and the co-leader of the Cannon-Johnson Gang of Maryland-Delaware, which operated for about a decade in the early 19th century kidnapping free blacks and refugee slaves to sell into slavery in the South, which came to be known as the Reverse Underground Railroad.
Tavern of slave trader Joe Johnson, the son-in-law of serial killer Patty Cannon Joseph Johnson, Ebenezer Johnson & Patty Cannon , Northwest Fork Hundred, Delaware [ 42 ] [ 43 ] A. E. Jones, Talbott County, Md. [ 2 ]
Antebellum city directories from slave states can be valuable primary sources on the trade; slave dealers listed in the 1855 directory of Memphis, Tennessee, included Bolton & Dickens, Forrest & Maples operating at 87 Adams, Neville & Cunningham, and Byrd Hill Slave depots, including ones owned by Mason Harwell and Thomas Powell, listed in the ...
Cornelius Sinclair (c. 1813 to unknown) was an African American child kidnapped in Philadelphia in August 1825 by Patty Cannon's gang. He was one of a number of children kidnapped that summer and later transported south, to be sold into slavery. [1]
A voiceover reads the letters in Martha. On the first of 150 days in prison, Stewart writes: "Physical exam, stripped of all clothes. Squat, arms out, cough — embarrassing."