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PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute
son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband
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.
Penned by fiery novelist, labor activist, and reformer George
Lippard (1822-1854) and first serialized in 1849, The Killers was
the work of a wildly popular writer who outsold Edgar Allan Poe and
Nathaniel Hawthorne in his lifetime. Long out of print, the novella
now appears in an edition supplemented with a brief biography of
the author, an untangling of the book's complex textual history,
and excerpts from related contemporaneous publications. Editors
Matt Cohen and Edlie L. Wong set the scene of an antebellum
Philadelphia rife with racial and class divisions, implicated in
the international slave trade, and immersed in Cuban annexation
schemes to frame this compact and compelling tale. Serving up in a
short form the same heady mix of sensational narrative, local
color, and impassioned politics found in Lippard's sprawling The
Quaker City, or The Monks of Monks Hall, The Killers is here
brought back to lurid life.
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