New York Burning (e-bok)
Format
E-bok
Filformat
EPUB med LCP-kryptering (0.0 MB)
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Nedladdning
Kan laddas ned under 24 månader, dock max 6 gånger.
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
352
Utgivningsdatum
2007-12-18
Förlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN
9780307427007

New York Burning E-bok

Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

E-bok (LCP),  Engelska, 2007-12-18
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award WinnerIn 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 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. 

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