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

Wells, Jonathan D

 
9781645030331: The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Daniel Wells is a social, cultural, and intellectual historian and a Professor of History in the Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Gonville & Caius College at the University of Cambridge. His published works include The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South, and A House Divided: The Civil War and Nineteenth-Century America. He lives in Detroit, Michigan.

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