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Patty CannonPatty Cannon began her life of crime in the early 1800's as the leader of a gang that was organized to kidnap free blacks and sell them into black market slavery. Cannon and her ruthless band of kidnappers, which included her husband Joe Johnson, were based near the town of Reliance, Delaware, USA, on the Dorchester County, Maryland line, where Cannons house still stands. They would steal slaves or free blacks and sell them back down south to the plantation owners. When they brought them back to the house they would hide them in the basement, hidden rooms in the house and in the attic. They would take the slaves in covered wagons to Johnson's Ferry (now Woodland's Ferry). At the ferry they would sometimes meet a schooner which would take them down the Nanticoke River to the Chesapeake Bay and onto Georgia slave markets. This went on for many years with no one willing to turn them in to the police. When they were caught in May 1822 it took some coordination. It seems that when Patty Cannon knew the police were coming she would slip across state lines and away from that police force. Upon capture Joe Johnson, her husband, was sentenced to 39 lashes which was carried out. Patty Cannon was charged with murder which she confessed to and while she was in her cell in Georgetown, Delaware she killed herself. Cannon, Patty
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