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New York Burning

Audiobook
Nonfiction: American History
Abridged   7.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 09/08/2005

New York Burning

Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

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Audio CD ISBN:9781565119680
Digital Download ISBN:9781598871814

Summary

The untold story of the little-known Manhattan slave rebellion of 1741 and the white hysteria that resulted.

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Product Description

The untold story of the little-known Manhattan slave rebellion of 1741 and the white hysteria that resulted in thirty black men hanged or burned at the stake, over a hundred black men and women thrown into the dungeon beneath City Hall, and many more shipped into bone-crushing slavery on Caribbean plantations. Was this a brutal and audacious rebellion prevented just in time or a far more horrible and unjust version of the Salem witch trials?

Author Bio

JILL LEPORE is the author of The Name of War: King Phillips War and the Origins of American Identity, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, and the Berkshire Prize, and A is for America: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. She received her Ph.D. from Yale and is currently professor of history at Harvard. With Jane Kamensky, she founded Commonplace, an online historical journal.