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false <![CDATA[New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan]]> 6260032 1 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 violence. From the Trade Paperback edition. 6443166 18 12 2007 New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan total:3|4:1|3:2| 3 10 4 1 6260032 3 1 New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan 3.33 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6260032.New_York_Burning_Liberty_Slavery_and_Conspiracy_in_Eighteenth_Century_Manhattan 4 0 false Fri Jul 17 15:52:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 10:59:58 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 15:52:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6260032 3 1 New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan 3.33 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6260032.New_York_Burning_Liberty_Slavery_and_Conspiracy_in_Eighteenth_Century_Manhattan 3 0 false Thu Jul 16 09:19:32 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 07:59:21 -0700 2009 6260032 3 1 New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan 3.33 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6260032.New_York_Burning_Liberty_Slavery_and_Conspiracy_in_Eighteenth_Century_Manhattan 0 0 false Sun Jun 28 12:23:48 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 12:23:48 -0700 2009 6260032 3 1 New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan 3.33 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6260032.New_York_Burning_Liberty_Slavery_and_Conspiracy_in_Eighteenth_Century_Manhattan 3 0 false Thu May 21 06:44:40 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 16:38:45 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 06:44:40 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6260032