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Index
Cover
Description
About Tyler Anbinder
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Prologue 1: The Five Points Race Riot of 1834
Chapter One: The Making of Five Points
Prologue 2: Nelly Holland Comes to Five Points
Chapter Two: Why They Came
Prologue 3: “The Wickedest House on the Wickedest Street That Ever Existed”
Chapter Three: How They Lived
Prologue 4: The Saga of Johnny Morrow, The Street Peddler
Chapter Four: How They Worked
Prologue 5: “We Will Dirk Every Mother’s Son of You!”
Chapter Five: Politics
Prologue 6: “This Phenomenon, ‘Juba’”
Chapter Six: Play
Prologue 7: The Bare-Knuckle Prizefight Between Yankee Sullivan and Tom Hyer
Chapter Seven: Vice and Crime
Prologue 8: “I Shall Never Forget This as Long as I Live”: Abraham Lincoln Visits Five Points
Chapter Eight: Religion and Reform
Prologue 9: “HE NEVER KNEW WHEN HE WAS BEATEN”
Chapter Nine: Riot
Prologue 10: “The Boy Who Commands That Pretty Lot Recruited Them for the Seceshes”
Chapter Ten: The Civil War and the End of an Era
Prologue 11: “So It Was Settled That I Should go to America”
Chapter Eleven: The Remaking of a Slum
Prologue 12: “These ‘Slaves of the Harp’”
Chapter Twelve: Italians
Prologue 13: “The Chinese Devil Man”
Chapter Thirteen: Chinatown
Chapter 14: The End of Five Points
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Endnotes
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