{"product_id":"9781400032266","title":"New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNew York Burning\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. 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. \u003cbr\u003e   Even back in the seventeenth century, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040633700592,"sku":"9781400032266","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400032266_p0.jpg?v=1763712264","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400032266","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}