num_pages: 352
description: Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award WinnerIn 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. 
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: New York, Historical, History, 18th Century, American History, African American, Audiobook, Crime, Nonfiction, True Crime
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: Vintage