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

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

Lepore, Jill

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Black American StudiesColonial Period (1600-1775)Regional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1400032261
ISBN13: 9781400032266
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Aug 8 2006
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER - A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.

Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness. --The New Yorker

A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often. --Newsday

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.

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