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The killers : a narrative of real life in Philadelphia / George Lippard ; edited by Matt Cohen and Edlie L. Wong.
- Title
- The killers : a narrative of real life in Philadelphia / George Lippard ; edited by Matt Cohen and Edlie L. Wong.
- Author
- Lippard, George, 1822-1854
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS2246.L8 K55 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 250 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Philadelphia, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the countraband slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferocious street gang led by his elder brother and his revenge-hungry comrade from Cuba. His adopted sister, a beautiful actress, is kidnapped, and her remorseful black captor becomes her savior as his tavern is engulfed in flames. Vendetta, gang violence, racial tensions, and international intrigue collide in an explosive novella based on the events leading up to an infamous 1849 Philadelphia race riot. The Killers takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from the hallowed halls of academia at Yale College to the dismal solitary cells of Eastern State Penitentiary and through southwest Philadelphia's community of free African Americans. Though the book's violence was ignited by the particulars of Philadelphia life and politics, the flames were fanned by nationwide anxieties about race, labor, immigration, and sexuality that emerged in the young republic"--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Life and adventures of Charles Anderson Chester.
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- History
- Fiction.
- Note
- Appendix 1: "Life and Adventures of Charles Anderson Chester."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Appendix 1: Life and Adventures of Charles Anderson Chester -- Appendix 2: Introduction to the serialized version of The Killers -- Appendix 3: Related contemporary documents.
- ISBN
- 9780812246247 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0812246241 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013047982
- OCLC
- 865180004
- SCSB-12236117
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library