Jill Lepore

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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century ManhattanPaperback, 8 August 2006

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
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Print Length
352 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Vintage
Date Published
8 Aug 2006
ISBN-10
1400032261
ISBN-13
9781400032266

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Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner

In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall.
Even back in the seventeenth century, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures, communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth of the population. Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the white political pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear and violence.

Product Details

Author:
Jill Lepore
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
8 August 2006
Dimensions:
20.37 x 13.41 x 1.8 cm
ISBN-10:
1400032261
ISBN-13:
9781400032266
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
352
Publisher:
Weight:
322.05 gm

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