S1E3:Industrial New York
Filthy Cities
19 Apr 201149 minTV-PG
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.
