The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells

The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

Jonathan Daniel Wells

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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From a prize-winning historian, the story of the powerful men who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well in antebellum New York City -- showing how slavery and corruption built modern New York. Although slavery was outlawed in the northern ...

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