{"product_id":"new-york-burning-liberty-slavery-and-conspiracy-in-eighteenth-century-manhattan-1400032261","title":"New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1400032261\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lepore, Jill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST  ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER  A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century 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 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.Even 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51327962054944,"sku":"NEW1400032261","price":21.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81Qk3HFhGhL.jpg?v=1773175895","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/new-york-burning-liberty-slavery-and-conspiracy-in-eighteenth-century-manhattan-1400032261","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}