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

by Jonathan Daniel Wells

EPUB, 2020

Original publication date

2020

Publication

Bold Type Books (2020), 368 pages

ISBN

156858752X / 9781568587523

Notes

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
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