The Kidnapping Club

preview-18
  • The Kidnapping Club Book Detail

  • Author : Jonathan Daniel Wells
  • Release Date : 2020-10-20
  • Publisher : Bold Type Books
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 345
  • ISBN 13 : 1645037118
  • File Size : 22,22 MB

The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan Daniel Wells PDF Summary

Book Description: Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting for freedom. We often think of slavery as a southern phenomenon, far removed from the booming cities of the North. But even though slavery had been outlawed in Gotham by the 1830s, Black New Yorkers were not safe. Not only was the city built on the backs of slaves; it was essential in keeping slavery and the slave trade alive. In The Kidnapping Club, historian Jonathan Daniel Wells tells the story of the powerful network of judges, lawyers, and police officers who circumvented anti-slavery laws by sanctioning the kidnapping of free and fugitive African Americans. Nicknamed "The New York Kidnapping Club," the group had the tacit support of institutions from Wall Street to Tammany Hall whose wealth depended on the Southern slave and cotton trade. But a small cohort of abolitionists, including Black journalist David Ruggles, organized tirelessly for the rights of Black New Yorkers, often risking their lives in the process. Taking readers into the bustling streets and ports of America's great Northern metropolis, The Kidnapping Club is a dramatic account of the ties between slavery and capitalism, the deeply corrupt roots of policing, and the strength of Black activism.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Kidnapping Club books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Kidnapping Club

The Kidnapping Club

File Size : 79,79 MB
Total View : 4848 Views
DOWNLOAD

Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the

Diamonds of Affection and Other Stories

Diamonds of Affection and Other Stories

File Size : 94,94 MB
Total View : 4469 Views
DOWNLOAD

DIAMONDS OF AFFECTION is a collection of short stories filled with a wild and eccentric cast of characters who are all, in some way, struggling to survive in th

No Place for Truth

No Place for Truth

File Size : 21,21 MB
Total View : 7487 Views
DOWNLOAD

Evangelicals, argues Wells, have largely lost the truth that God also stands outside all human experience, that he still summons sinners to repentance and belie

God in the Whirlwind

God in the Whirlwind

File Size : 20,20 MB
Total View : 9096 Views
DOWNLOAD

Building on years of research and teaching, experienced author and theologian David Wells offers a remedy for evangelicalism’s superficial theology and weight

Magic and Loss

Magic and Loss

File Size : 74,74 MB
Total View : 5636 Views
DOWNLOAD

Young Jackie Riddicks journey is haunted by the premature death of his father, the horrific abuse by his stepfather in Baltimore, and a harrowing escape to a sm