| |
 |
 |
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan @ Booksfree.com |
 |
|
 | | New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
| | by Jill Lepore Format: CD Audiobook
Published: September 2005
Category: United States - Colonial Period
Publisher: Penguin/Highbridge
Narrator: Beth McDonald | | |  | | Learn More | | | | Description | | | This stunning historical account of a forgotten chapter of New York City history examines the events of 1741 when, following a string of fires in buildings owned by wealthy people, a rumor of a slave rebellion spread through the city. As a result, African Americans were tried and convicted, burned at the stake, hanged, deported to the Caribbean, and imprisoned in dungeons under the city's streets. As Jill Lepore recreates New York's slavery era, she digs deeply into the teeming political and social tensions of the time in a city she calls 'a jumble of cultures, languages, and religions..., a frenzied factious place,' and focuses on one official, Daniel Horsmanden, and his campaign to expose the conspiracy. In her fascinating appendices, Lepore explains her process of researching the story, which involved constructing three separate databases on people, places, and events in order to detect patterns that otherwise might have been missed. She also includes several tables, including one on 'The Accused' and one on 'The Owners,' both of which are rich in data and very revealing. |
|
Rent New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan by Jill Lepore at Booksfree.com! We make renting great audiobooks like New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan easy by charging no late fees, and free shipping both ways!
Home / new-noa / New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan /
|
|
| As Featured In: Click on the logos below to read article. | | | | | | | |
    | | | | |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
