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Cookie akzeptierenJill Lepore
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
- VINTAGE
- 2006
- Taschenbuch
- 352 Seiten
- ISBN 9781400032266
Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning , __ Bancroft 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. 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
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