New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
- ISBN-10
- 0307427005
- ISBN-13
- 9780307427007
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-12-18
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Jill Lepore
Description
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.
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