New York Burning - 9781400032266
Un libro in lingua di Jill Lepore edito da Vintage Books, 2006
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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 Lepore recounts these dramatic events, re-creating, with path-breaking research, the nascent New York of the seventeenth century. Even then, 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: New York Burning
- Sottotitolo: Liberty, Slavery, And Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Jill Lepore
- Editore: Vintage Books
- Collana: Vintage Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 08 Agosto '06
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Slave insurrections New York (State) New York History 18th century Fires New York (State) New York History 18th century African Americans New York (State) New York History 18th century
- Pagine: 323
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 120 x 19
- ISBN-10: 1400032261
- EAN-13: 9781400032266