β Rock, Howard B.
π Fiction
π
2013;2012
π NYU Press
π English
β 2 MB
β¦ LIBER β¦
New York burning: liberty, slavery and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan
β Scribed by Jill Lepore
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2007;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, ten fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. 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.
In New York Burning ,__ Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events, re-creating, with path-breaking research, the nascent New York of the seventeenth century. Even then, 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...
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