
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Product available on: 08/09/2005
Price: £22.46
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Synopsis
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?
Publisher information
- Publisher: HighBridge Company
- ISBN: 9781565119680
- Number of pages: 465
- Dimensions: 147 x 127 x 25 mm
- Weight: 236g
- Languages: English