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>Born in Five Points, Manhattan to a Black mother and a white father who left soon after his birth, Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825–1875) grew up in poverty that
by Isamu 4y ago
>Born in Five Points, Manhattan to a Black mother and a white father who left soon after his birth, Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825–1875) grew up in poverty that deepened after his mother died of cholera when he was six.
Isn’t this the setting of Gangs of New York?
- amiramir 4y agoYes. You can still visit the area, in what is now mostly Chinatown, though one of the main feature of Five Points, The Collect Pond is now gone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points,_Manhattan