Maryland November 22, 2019 8:05 pm

Maryland Professor Documents Free Children Kidnapped Into Slavery

Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins dives into a new book by University of Maryland professor of history Richard Bell. Through his research, Bell tells the real-life stories of five free black boys who were kidnapped into slavery in the 1820s at the hands of a Maryland woman named Patty Cannon.

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