New York Burning Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan |
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| Author:
| Lepore, Jill |
| Read by:
| McDonald, Beth |
| ISBN: | 978-1-56511-968-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2005 |
| Publisher: | HighBridge Company
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| Book Format: | CD-Audio |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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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?
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?