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  • The Kidnapping Club

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

    by Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    **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. But even though slavery had been outlawed in Gotham by ... Read more

    Was $17.99 USD Now $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slavery in North America Vol 3

    From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

    by Mark M Smith, Peter S Carmichael, Timothy Lockley, Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 3 includes the Antebellum Period from 1828 to 1859. ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Slavery in North America Vol 1

    From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

    by Peter S Carmichael, Timothy Lockley, Jonathan Daniel Wells, Mark M Smith ...
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 1 includes a general introduction and the colonial period covering slavery and the law, slave resistance, religion and slavery; and ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Slavery in North America Vol 2

    From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

    by Mark M Smith, Peter S Carmichael, Timothy Lockley, Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 2 includes the Revolutionary and Early National Period and covers the Anti-Slavery Impulse and Reaction to It and the Slave ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Slavery in North America Vol 4

    From the Colonial Period to Emancipation

    by Mark M Smith, Peter S Carmichael, Timothy Lockley, Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    First published in 2009. From the founding of Jamestown to the American Civil War, slavery and abolition shaped American national, regional and racial identities. This four-volume reset edition draws together rare sources relating to American slavery systems. Volume 4 includes the Civil War and Emancipation period from 1861 to 1866. ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Entering the Fray

    Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South

    Edited by Jonathan Daniel Wells, Sheila R. Phipps ...
    Series Book 1 - Southern Women
    The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for woman suffrage, the conflicted nature of race and class in the South, the complex story of politics, and the role of family and motherhood in black and white society. This book brings together nine essays that examine the importance of gender, race, and ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America

    Edited by Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of nineteenth-century history. It shows how the century defined much of our modern world, focusing on themes including: immigration, slavery and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century

    by Susanna Delfino, Angela Lakwete, Martin Reuf, Don H. Doyle, Sally Hadden, Sonya Ramsey, Jennie Goloboy, Bruce W. Eelman, Amanda R. Mushal, Frank Towers, James Oakes, John G. Deal ...
    Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes—planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of Dixie, worked ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861

    by Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region had a burgeoning white middle class — including merchants, doctors, and teachers — that had a profound impact on southern culture, the debate over ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Blind No More

    African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, and the Coming of the Civil War

    by Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    Series Book 57 - Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
    With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre–Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union. Jonathan Daniel Wells explores the cause of disunion as the persistent determination ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South

    by Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into Southern intellectual life, the fight for women's rights and gender ideology. Based on new research into Southern magazines and newspapers, this book seeks to shift scholarly attention away from novelists and toward the rich and diverse periodical ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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    The Kidnapping Club

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

    by Jonathan Daniel Wells ...
    Narrated by Devante Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    **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. But even though slavery had been outlawed in Gotham by ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook