Tag Archives: Crime
Get your FACTS straight
Reading the introduction of Tyler Anbinder’s Five Points you get a good sense of what life was like in the infamous Five Points of New York. Even though this area housed and produced many horrible things it was a key … Continue reading
Hide Your Kids ! Hide Your Wife ! Hide Your Husband! They killing everybody out here!!!
One of the main themes in the 1800’s was the incredible amount of deaths that was increasing per year.Most of these deaths were happening in the rural south but doesn’t mean that the main city didn’t have a large number of deaths as well. … Continue reading
Pick-pocketing 101
With the exponentially growing population of Manhattan, violence was the direct effect which rose from the poor neighborhoods of the 19th century. With a city with poor protection, surrounding people began to worry about the growing number of thieves running … Continue reading