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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Name: New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Brand: Vintage
SKU: 9781400032266
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Contributors:

Jill Lepore

Publisher:

Vintage

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

United States, Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

State & Local, Colonial Period (1600-1775), American

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Release Date:

2006-08-08

ISBN 13:

9781400032266

Weight:

0.71 lbs

Size:

8.02 x 5.28 x 0.71 inches

Pages:

352

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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.

About the Author

JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include the New York Times best seller The Secret History of Wonder Woman and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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