The Kidnapping Club
Title | The Kidnapping Club PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Daniel Wells |
Publisher | Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1645037118 |
Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book Award In 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. But even though slavery had been outlawed in Gotham by the 1830s, Black New Yorkers were not safe. Not only was the city built on the backs of slaves; it was essential in keeping slavery and the slave trade alive. 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. Nicknamed "The New York Kidnapping Club," the group had the tacit support of institutions from Wall Street to Tammany Hall whose wealth depended on the Southern slave and cotton trade. But a small cohort of abolitionists, including Black journalist David Ruggles, organized tirelessly for the rights of Black New Yorkers, often risking their lives in the process. Taking readers into the bustling streets and ports of America's great Northern metropolis, The Kidnapping Club is a dramatic account of the ties between slavery and capitalism, the deeply corrupt roots of policing, and the strength of Black activism.
Impossible Odds
Title | Impossible Odds PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Buchanan |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-05-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1476725160 |
An account of the aid worker co-author's dramatic January 2012 rescue from kidnappers in Somalia by members of a Navy SEAL Team Six unit offers insight into the effective use of targeted U.S. military missions.
South to Freedom
Title | South to Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Alice L Baumgartner |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Total Pages | 362 |
Release | 2020-11-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1541617770 |
A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Stolen
Title | Stolen PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Bell |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501169459 |
This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward P. Jones, and Toni Morrison” (Jane Kamensky, Professor of American History at Harvard University). Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be sold as slaves. Determined to resist, the boys form a tight brotherhood as they struggle to free themselves and find their way home. Their ordeal—an odyssey that takes them from the Philadelphia waterfront to the marshes of Mississippi and then onward still—shines a glaring spotlight on the Reverse Underground Railroad, a black market network of human traffickers and slave traders who stole away thousands of legally free African Americans from their families in order to fuel slavery’s rapid expansion in the decades before the Civil War. “Rigorously researched, heartfelt, and dramatically concise, Bell’s investigation illuminates the role slavery played in the systemic inequalities that still confront Black Americans” (Booklist).
The Kidnapping of Courtney Van Allen and What's-Her-Name
Title | The Kidnapping of Courtney Van Allen and What's-Her-Name PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce Cool |
Publisher | Yearling |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Kidnapping |
ISBN | 9780553155976 |
When 12-year-old Jan Travis is kidnapped along with her world-famous, wealthy friend, the kidnappers demand something other than money.
The Fan Club
Title | The Fan Club PDF eBook |
Author | Irving Wallace |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | 511 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | English fiction |
ISBN | 9780304293698 |
The Lost Mothers’ Club
Title | The Lost Mothers’ Club PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Westmoreland |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 2015-06-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504914554 |
Jenny and her friend, Mandy, decided to start a club for girls who are not living with their mothers. They came up with five more girls in their class who fit the criteria for one reason or another. Calvin, who was Jenny’s next-door neighbor, lived with his mother, so he was voted in to be an honorary member. Shortly after the club was started, Molly, one of the members, was kidnapped. The police could not find her, so the club members took it upon themselves to do what the police could not. Find out the dangers they faced and the adventures they had during the rescue. Also, find out just how grateful Molly’s father was to the Lost Mothers’ Club.