Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey. Katherine C. Mooney, Katherine C. Mooney

Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey

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ISBN: 9780300254426 | 192 pages | 5 Mb

Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey
Katherine C. Mooney, Katherine C. Mooney
Page: 192
Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
ISBN: 9780300254426
Publisher: Yale University Press

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The rise and fall of one of America’s first Black sports celebrities Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. They were internationally famous, the first African American superstar athletes—and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. At the same time, he lived through the seismic events of Emancipation and Reconstruction and formative conflicts over freedom and equality in the United States. And inevitably he was drawn into those conflicts, with devastating consequences. Katherine C. Mooney uncovers the history of Murphy’s troubled life, his death in 1896 at age thirty-five, and his afterlife. In recounting Murphy’s personal story, she also tells two of the great stories of change in nineteenth-century America: the debates over what a multiracial democracy might look like and the battles over who was to hold power in an economy that increasingly resembled the corporate, wealth-polarized world we know today.

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