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New York Burning

Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Jill Lepore
4.1
(19)
Duration
7h 30m
Year
2005
Language
English
Abridged

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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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