{"product_id":"new-york-burning-liberty-slavery-and-conspiracy-in-eighteenth-century-manhattan-vintage","title":"New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Vintage)","description":"PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER • A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.\n\n“Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.” —The New Yorker\n\n“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\n\nIn 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.\n\nEven 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1400032261\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1400032261.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Lepore, Jill\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43274040868925,"sku":"BVV.1400032261.VG","price":9.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1400032261-0.jpg?v=1781559108","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/new-york-burning-liberty-slavery-and-conspiracy-in-eighteenth-century-manhattan-vintage","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}