Patty Cannon

Patty Cannon is represented in the linked historical fiction through social change and the pressures of ordinary life, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and exploration, travel and cultural encounter. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In James McBride’s Song yet Sung, Liz Spocott, an enslaved young woman wounded during an attempted escape, is imprisoned in the attic of the slave trader Patty Cannon.