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Edwin G. Burrows
Born
in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
May 15, 1943
Died
May 04, 2018
Genre
More books by Edwin G. Burrows…
“On New Year’s Eve 1777, after performing in a play entitled The Devil to Pay in the West Indies, a party of drunken officers—one dressed up like Old Nick himself, complete with horns and tail—disrupted services at the John Street Methodist Church. Nor was that the worst of it. “I could narrate many and very frightful occurrences of theft, fraud, robbery, and murder by the English soldiers which their love of drink excited,” said one dismayed German officer.”
― Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
― Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
“It was becoming somewhat more difficult, too, to open a “public house” or tavern for the sale of liquor. Municipal authorities now requested applicants for a license to present a certificate attesting they were “of good life & Conversation and fitt to keep such a house.”
― Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
― Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
“Blackbirders”—stalkers who were not above seizing free blacks and shipping them into slavery—began prowling the city on a regular basis. Their only opposition consisted of sporadic and spontaneous riots by local African Americans. In 1819 forty blacks on Barclay Street tried and failed to rescue a man being taken by a slavecatcher and a city marshal to a Hudson River steamboat dock. In 1826 blacks bombarded a slavecatcher giving evidence at City Hall with bricks, sticks, and stones but were suppressed by the police and given severe sentences.”
― Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
― Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
Polls
July/August 2021 Group Read
Pulitzer Prize in Biography, General Nonfiction, or History
Pulitzer Prize in Biography, General Nonfiction, or History
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King, Winner General Nonfiction, 2013
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove, Winner History, 1997
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows, Winner History, 1999
God: A Biography by Jack Miles, Winner Biography, 1996
The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts, Winner History, 2007
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow, Winner History, 1990
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