{"product_id":"new-york-burning-liberty-slavery-and-conspiracy-in-eighteenth-century-manhattan-9781400032266","title":"New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan","description":"\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER - A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNew York Burning\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBancroft 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill Lepore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.28w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400032266","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836590706825,"sku":"9781400032266","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_7c5ea255-6b79-4c0c-ac54-b4928ab4f220.jpg?v=1780440506","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/new-york-burning-liberty-slavery-and-conspiracy-in-eighteenth-century-manhattan-9781400032266","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}