{"product_id":"9781400032266","title":"New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan","description":"\u003cb\u003ePULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER • A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNew York Burning\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBancroft 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven 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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42371027337277,"sku":"9781400032266","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781400032266_p0.jpg?v=1771575362","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781400032266","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}