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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781400032266
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, ten fires blazed
across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more
evidence of a slave uprising. 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.
In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill
Lepore recounts these dramatic events, re-creating, with
path-breaking research, the nascent New York of the seventeenth
century. Even then, 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.
Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner
Over a frigid few weeks in the winter of 1741, ten fires blazed
across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more
evidence of a slave uprising. 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.
In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill
Lepore recounts these dramatic events, re-creating, with
path-breaking research, the nascent New York of the seventeenth
century. Even then, 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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