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Six years after reading Dr. James Lowen's book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, military history master's student and attorney, Kevin. A. Brown, sees progress in righting an historical injustice.
In this fascinating work, Loewen criticized the State of Delaware for failing to have any historical markers discussing the issue of the kidnapping of free blacks in Delaware in the early 19th century. As Loewen points out, Delaware was the home to what was quite possibly the largest kidnapping ring in U.S. history. The Cannon-Johnson gang was headquartered in southern Delaware and operated as a criminal agency in no less than four states. They kidnapped hundreds of free people of color and illegally sold them as slaves in the deep south. This practice continued for decades until the gang was finally broken up in the late 1820s.
After reading Loewen's book, Brown embarked on a campaign to right this historical injustice and have the issue properly commemorated in Delaware. He petitioned the Delaware Legislature to place two historical markers: one in Wilmington, where many of the kidnappings took place, and one in Reliance, where the Cannon-Johnson Gang had its headquarters. The first historical marker went up in February 2005 and the second marker was dedicated in May 2012.