New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
A chronicle of an alleged eighteenth-century slave conspiracy to destroy New York City explores the social and political climate of the 1730s and 1740s and the implications of the conspiracy in terms of American politics and history.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Knopf Publishing Group
- Year
- 2005
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- SlaveryColonial AmericaConspiracy trials
Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardWon(2006)
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryShortlistedMajor(2006)
Other awarded books from Jill Lepore
- We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
- The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
- The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
- If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
- These Truths: A History of the United States
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