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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Jill Lepore, PaperbackOriginal price was: $17.95.$15.26Current price is: $15.26.
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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.
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Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jill Lepore
Published: 08/08/2006
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781400032266
Pages: 323
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.28w x 0.71d
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Weight | 0.71 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.02 × 5.28 × 0.71 in |
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