Original publication date
2020
Publication
Bold Type Books (2020), 368 pages
ISBN
156858752X / 9781568587523
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CONTENTS
Prologue: Summer 1832: Norfolk, Virginia
1 The Battle Engaged
2 The Birth of the Kidnapping Club and the Rebirth of Manhattan
3 New York Divided
4 New York, a Port in the Slave Trade
5 Policing and Criminalizing the Black Community
6 Economic Panic
7 No End in Sight
8 New York and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
9 "Blessed Be Cotton!": The Fugitive Slave Law and New York City
10 The Portuguese Company
11 New York and Secession
12 Civil War
Epilogue The Hidden Past and Reparations Due
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
OPINION
Prologue: Summer 1832: Norfolk, Virginia
1 The Battle Engaged
2 The Birth of the Kidnapping Club and the Rebirth of Manhattan
3 New York Divided
4 New York, a Port in the Slave Trade
5 Policing and Criminalizing the Black Community
6 Economic Panic
7 No End in Sight
8 New York and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
9 "Blessed Be Cotton!": The Fugitive Slave Law and New York City
10 The Portuguese Company
11 New York and Secession
12 Civil War
Epilogue The Hidden Past and Reparations Due
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
OPINION
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