num_pages: 352
description: Pulitzer Prize FinalistAnisfield-Wolf Award WinnerOver 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.
language: English
title: New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
titlecomplete: New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
genres: Historical, True Crime, Nonfiction, Audiobook, 18th Century, American History, New York, Crime, History, African American
ratings_count: 843
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: New York City Book Award
category: Book of the Year
publisher: Knopf