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CHAPTER 4. “Upon This Thread Hangs the Welfare of Our City”

Society, Space, and Public Policy, 1857–1861
© Yale University Press, New Haven

© Yale University Press, New Haven

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction. Finding the Past 1
  5. CHAPTER 1. A Pueblo by the Porciuncula, 1781–1840 23
  6. CHAPTER 2. “Members of the Same Family with Ourselves” 55
  7. CHAPTER 3. “Impossible to Ascertain with Any Degree of Certainty” 94
  8. CHAPTER 4. “Upon This Thread Hangs the Welfare of Our City” 133
  9. CHAPTER 5. Judging “an ‘Ethiopian by His Skin’ ” 169
  10. CHAPTER 6. “Looking Across the Gulf of Immeasurable Distance” 204
  11. Conclusion. “A Story Hidden Behind Every Crumbling Wall” 254
  12. Notes 269
  13. Index 339
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https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300156621-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction. Finding the Past 1
  5. CHAPTER 1. A Pueblo by the Porciuncula, 1781–1840 23
  6. CHAPTER 2. “Members of the Same Family with Ourselves” 55
  7. CHAPTER 3. “Impossible to Ascertain with Any Degree of Certainty” 94
  8. CHAPTER 4. “Upon This Thread Hangs the Welfare of Our City” 133
  9. CHAPTER 5. Judging “an ‘Ethiopian by His Skin’ ” 169
  10. CHAPTER 6. “Looking Across the Gulf of Immeasurable Distance” 204
  11. Conclusion. “A Story Hidden Behind Every Crumbling Wall” 254
  12. Notes 269
  13. Index 339
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