- ISBN13: 9781400032266
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
Over 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… More >>
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
No one alive today cares that NY had fires in 1741 (UNLIKE THE CHICAGO fIRE OF 1871). Why did author Lepore choose to bring up this terrible racial incident. Is she trying to create trouble? Be a traitor to her own race? Book is well researched I guess
but the racial subject matter stinks and was unnecessary to bring up! Totally unnecessary!
Rating: 1 / 5
An amazing book, part detective story, part cultural history, part urban archeaology. Using a combination of her keen and humane eye and the latest in computer methods, Lepore recovers the slave city of 18th-century NYC in moving detail. Changes everything we thought we knew about slavery, about New York … and about the writing of history. Elegant, provocative, deeply researched: a masterpiece.
Rating: 5 / 5
I was, and am still, astounded by the in-depth knowledge that Ms. Lepore manages to uncover page after page of this remarkable revelation of New York racial history at its “rawest”. For all those who believed like me that New York City in the 18th centruy was the golden gate to slave refuge — that which protected runaways from their brutal and inhumane treatment of the southern plantation owners, they too will be equally as shocked, as was I, to find the opposite to be the gut churning truth.
As unconscionable as it may seem, African flesh was reguarly burned at the stake in the middle of the New York City streets to the entertaiment of audiences of highbrowed whites. Such was the unequivocal right of swift justice that was to be handed down to those enslaved for even the mere notion of a slave revolt.
If Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of New York City)]] is/ was an intriguing read to you then “New York Burning” may also lend spark to that flame of interest as well. Great work.
Rating: 5 / 5
Jill Lepore’s New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery And Conspiracy In 18th Century Manhattan receives a vivid reading by Beth McDonald and tells of an 18th century conspiracy by slaves to destroy New York City: a history nearly forgotten were it not for this vivid story. Audio brings the story to life in a way the written word is hard-pressed to compete with as it recreates events and rationale.
Rating: 5 / 5
A fascinating and altogether unfamiliar story about an eighteenth-century
slave plot to destroy New York City. Richly researched and beautifully
written.. Indispensable. Her other books are great too. Check out “A is for American”.
Rating: 5 / 5