The Kidnapping Club
The Kidnapping Club Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade…
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The Kidnapping Club
Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn 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. Not only was the city built on the backs of slaves; it was essential in keeping slavery and the slave trade alive. But even though slavery had been outlawed in Gotham by the 1830s, Black New Yorkers were not safe.
Nicknamed "The New York Kidnapping Club," the group had the tacit support 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.
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