"A chronicle of an alleged eighteenth-century slave conspiracy to destroy New York City explores the social and political climate of the 1730s and 1740s and the implications of the conspiracy in terms of American politics and history."
""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 ... 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."--Back cover."@en

"New York burning : liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan"@en
"New York burning : liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan"
"New York burning : liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in an eighteenth-century Manhattan"
"New York burning : liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in an eighteenth-century Manhattan"@en
"New York burning liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan"