![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The police refused to investigate the cases, and the mayor ignored the community’s pleas for help. More children began disappearing - more than one a week. Or so it was believed none of the children were heard from again. Jane Green, 11, was speaking to a stranger before she went missing. John Dickerson, 11, disappeared while running an errand for his parents. In 1833, Black children began to vanish from the streets of New York City.įrances Shields, age 12, with cropped hair and a scar over her right eye, was last seen walking to school wearing in a purple and white dress. The book describes a ring in New York City decades before the Civil War that kidnapped blacks to sell them as slaves in the South. The New York Times has a review of The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells. ![]()
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