[PDF.21tq] New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

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 | #385549 in Books |  Knopf |  2005-08-23 |  2005-08-23 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.52 x1.25 x6.63l, | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Good For History Lovers|By S. tamburin|I doubt anyone who does not want to read a true historical book with a lot of facts but not as exciting as a non-fiction novel will enjoy this. I liked it because I learned a lot of things about New York that I was really surprised to read. Seems my beloved New York had a pretty bloody, violent history towards slaves and Catholics and so|.com |New York Burning is a well-told tale of a once-notorious episode that took place in Manhattan in 1741. Though, as Jill Lepore writes, New York's "slave past has long been buried," for most of the 18th century one in five inhabitants of Manhattan we

A gripping tale and groundbreaking investigation of a mysterious, and largely forgotten, eighteenth-century slave plot to destroy New York City.

Over a few weeks in 1741, ten fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. Tried and convicted before the colony’s Supreme Court, thirteen black men were burned at the stake and seventeen were hanged. Four whites, the alleged ringleaders of the plot, were...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan   |  Jill Lepore. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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