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100 1  Wells, Jonathan Daniel,|d1969-|eauthor. 
245 14 The Kidnapping Club :|bWall Street, slavery, and 
       resistance on the eve of the Civil War /|cJonathan Daniel 
       Wells. 
246 30 Wall Street, slavery, and resistance on the eve of the 
       Civil War 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBold Type Books,|c2020. 
300    354 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-331) and 
       index. 
520    "Although slavery was outlawed in the northern states in 
       1827, the illegal slave trade continued in the one place 
       modern readers would least expect, the streets and ports 
       of America's great northern metropolis: New York City. In 
       'The Kidnapping Club,' historian Jonathan Daniel Wells 
       takes readers to a rapidly changing city rife with 
       contradiction, where social hierarchy clashed with a 
       rising middle class, Black citizens jostled for an equal 
       voice in politics and culture, and women of all races 
       eagerly sought roles outside the home. It is during this 
       time that the city witnessed an alarming trend: a number 
       of free and fugitive Black men, women, and children were 
       being kidnapped into slavery. The group responsible, known
       as the Kidnapping Club, was a frighteningly effective 
       network of judges, lawyers, police officers, and bankers 
       who circumvented northern anti-slavery laws by sanctioning
       the kidnapping of free Black Americans--selling them into 
       markets in the South, South America, and the Caribbean, 
       for vast sums of wealth. David Ruggles, a Black journalist
       and abolitionist, worked tirelessly to bring their 
       injustices to light-risking his own freedom in the process
       and ultimately exposing the vast system of corruption that
       made New York City rich. A searing and dramatic history, 
       'The Kidnapping Club' upends the myth of an abolitionist 
       North at odds with a slavery-loving South. It is a 
       powerful and resonant account of the ties between slavery 
       and capitalism, the deeply corrupt roots of policing in 
       America, and the strength of Black activism"--|cProvided 
       by publisher. 
600 10 Ruggles, David,|d1810-1849. 
610 20 New York Kidnapping Club (Gang)|xHistory. 
650  0 Free African Americans|zNew York (State)|zNew York
       |xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Free African Americans|xLegal status, laws, etc.|xHistory
       |y19th century. 
650  0 Kidnapping victims|zNew York|zNew York (State)|xHistory
       |y19th century. 
650  0 Kidnapping victims|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Fugitive slaves|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Fugitive slaves|zNew York (State)|zNew York|xHistory|y19th
       century. 
650  0 Slavery|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Slave trade|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century.