Tom Cribb: The Life of the Black Diamond

by Jon Hurley

Bareknuckle fighter Thomas Cribb (1781-1848) was a sporting legend whose exploits still feature in thousands of publications on boxing, a primitive activity he dragged from the gutter into the smoking rooms of country houses.His most famous bouts were against Tom Molineaux, a black American. These fights really captured the imagination of the British public--the English patriot versus the black American slave. People slept in ditches and dangled from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752447513
• ISBN13: 9780752447513
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: History Press (SC)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"