The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan D Wells

The Kidnapping Club by Jonathan D Wells

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

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.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781568587523
ISBN 10	156858752X
Title	The Kidnapping Club
Author	Jonathan D Wells
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	PublicAffairs,U.S.
Year published	2020-11-05
Number of pages	368
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.