Industrial New York

Industrial New York

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S1 E3: Historian Dan Snow travels back to a seething Manhattan in the throes of the industrial revolution. Millions fleeing persecution in Europe arrived to find a New York consumed by filth and corruption. This massive immigrant population was crammed together in disease-ridden slums with some forced to cook with clothes dye and floor cleaner to disguise the stench of fetid, rotting meat.