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