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

Wells, Jonathan Daniel

ISBN 10: 156858752X / ISBN 13: 9781568587523

Edité par Bold Type Books, 2020

N° de réf. du vendeur 156858752X-3-36964556

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

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 Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, ...
Éditeur : Bold Type Books
Date d'édition : 2020
Reliure : hardcover
Etat : Good