{"product_id":"new-york-burning-liberty-slavery-and-conspiracy-in-eighteenth-century-manhattan","title":"New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJill Lepore\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781400032266\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan | Jill Lepore | Paperback | 9781400032266 | Used: Very Good | American History 1693935","offer_id":48432817963160,"sku":"1693935","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81Qk3HFhGhL.jpg?v=1773354347","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/new-york-burning-liberty-slavery-and-conspiracy-in-eighteenth-century-manhattan","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}