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The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
By Wells, Jonathan Daniel
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Starred Review on October 1, 2020 | Social Sciences
In this latest work, Wells (Blind No More) exposes the illegal slave trade in New York in the years prior to the Civil War. Although slavery was abolished in the city in 1827, many New Yorkers had no misgivings about the institution as they profited greatly from slave-grown cotton, especially Wall Street banks that financed Southern slaveholders. In fact, Wells reveals that New York's dramatic rise into a financial powerhouse and cosmopo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
