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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in EighteenthCentury Manhattan
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ANISFIELDWOLF AWARD WINNER A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenthcentury New York in all its moral and physical messiness. The New YorkerA 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. NewsdayIn New York Burning,Bancroft Prizewinning 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 onefifth 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.
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