New York Burning by Jill Lepore

New York Burning by Jill Lepore

PULITZER 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 Yorker

"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." --Newsday

In 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.

Jill Lepore is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. The House of Bliss, The Whites of Their Eyes (Princeton), and Book of Ages: The Life and Views of Jane Franklin are only a few of her works.

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ISBN 13	9781400032266
ISBN 10	1400032261
Title	New York Burning
Author	Jill Lepore
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2006-08-08
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2006, Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize.
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