Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have been unrecognizable to inhabitants of today’s sprawling metropolis. Fruits and vegetables came from smal…

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