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Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In 'The Kidnapping Club,' historian Jonathan Daniel Wells takes readers to a rapidly changing city rife with contradiction, where social hierarchy clashed with a rising middle class, Black citizens jostled for an equal voice...