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The Kidnapping Club

Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
  • Wells, Jonathan Daniel
2020
A history of the Kidnapping Club, a network of New York City judges, lawyers, police officers, and bankers who circumvented northern anti-slavery laws by kidnapping and selling free Black Americans for vast sums of wealth.

David Ruggles

a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
  • Hodges, Graham Russell
2010
Chronicles the life of African-American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist David Ruggles, discussing his childhood, role in the abolitionist movement, place in the politics and society of New York, career accomplishments, and involvement in the Underground Railroad.
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