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.
She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts..
Her books include the New York Times best seller The Secret History of Wonder Woman and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award.
About the Author: JILL Lepore is the David Woods Kemper \'41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker.
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.
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.
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.
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
