Wicked Baltimore
By: Lauren Silberman
Publisher: History Press; The History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781609491086
Subjects: History; Social problems; Social conflict; Crime
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Christopher Scharpf; title: Introduction; title: Banishing William Goddard; title: Napoleon's sister-in-law : the international marriage scandal of Betsy Patterson Bonaparte; title: America's oldest operating penitentiary; title: The birth of Mobtown; title: Nest of pirates; title: A terrible trade : the slave pens of Baltimore; title: Would Poe have been Poe without Baltimore?; title: Plug uglies, bloodtubs and rip raps, oh my!; title: The Baltimore plot : Baltimore and the beginning of the Civil War; title: "Revolt on the railroads" : the Great Strike of 1877; title: Did she or didn't she? : the case of the "Baltimore Borgia"; title: Burking, bodies and Baltimore; title: Playing "Winder" : the escape and capture of Ike Winder; title: The sordid findings of Baltimore's vice commission; title: The block; title: The battle over liquid bread : Baltimore and prohibition.