Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award WinnerIn 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.
2015-12-15Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.21 x .69 x 6.14l; 1.33 #File Name: 1348273720304 pages
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