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New York burning, liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan, Jill Lepore

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New York burning, liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan, Jill Lepore
Language
eng
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Main title
New York burning
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Jill Lepore
Sub title
liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan
Summary
The untold story of the little-known Manhattan slave rebellion of 1741 and the white hysteria that resulted in thirty black men hanged or burned at the stake, over a hundred black men and women thrown into the dungeon beneath City Hall, and many more shipped into bone-crushing slavery on Caribbean plantations. Was this a brutal and audacious rebellion prevented just in time or a far more horrible and unjust version of the Salem witch trials?
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adult
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