Jonathan D. Wells

Gebundenes Buch

The Kidnapping Club

Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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 Detroit, Michigan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublicAffairs, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781568587523
• ISBN-10: 156858752X
• Artikelnr.: 58664837