Black Friday (1869)
Black Friday, September 24, 1869 was caused by two speculators’ efforts, Jay Gould and James Fisk, to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange. It was one of several scandals that rocked the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....”
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The bloody flesh our only food:
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